America

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L_j xtraordinary and spectacular images provide a brief yet intense
glimpse of the most significant characteristics of a nation so large
and complex as to defy generalization or definition.
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JLhe United States of America is such a
composite and complex reality that it would be
impossible to classify it using clear-cut categories.
There is a working America, consisting of world-
famous factories which boast highly advanced
production systems, and there is a poor America,
consisting of unemployed or unskilled laborers
who live mostly in inner city areas. There is the
America of West Point, with its cadets in their crisp
uniforms and the America of huge demonstrations,
the America of movies and of television "soap
operas," and the America that listens to itself in
poetry readings. There is the America that lives
with the break-up of the family and the America
that is attempting to regain higher values through
the proliferation of numerous religious sects, the... Tovább

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L_j xtraordinary and spectacular images provide a brief yet intense
glimpse of the most significant characteristics of a nation so large
and complex as to defy generalization or definition.
rp
JLhe United States of America is such a
composite and complex reality that it would be
impossible to classify it using clear-cut categories.
There is a working America, consisting of world-
famous factories which boast highly advanced
production systems, and there is a poor America,
consisting of unemployed or unskilled laborers
who live mostly in inner city areas. There is the
America of West Point, with its cadets in their crisp
uniforms and the America of huge demonstrations,
the America of movies and of television "soap
operas," and the America that listens to itself in
poetry readings. There is the America that lives
with the break-up of the family and the America
that is attempting to regain higher values through
the proliferation of numerous religious sects, the
healthy and slightly coarse America of the rodeo
and great sporting events and the America that
"burns up" its young generations.
The United States is a cross section of a varied
humanity of opposing characteristics overlapping in
an often contradictory fashion. America is
everything and the opposite of everything, and if
we were to play the game of free association
beginning with the words "United States of
America," it would be very difficult to predict how
many would say "Manhattan" and how many
would say "Grand Canyon." Vissza