Trends in American Foreign Policy
| Autor: | Frank H. Underhill |
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| Rok vydání: | 1944 |
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| Zdroj: | University of Toronto Quarterly. 13:286-297 |
| ISSN: | 1712-5278 0042-0247 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/utq.13.3.286 |
| Popis: | A Canadian needs to live for a while in the United States before the full meaning of the Declaration of Independence dawns upon him. It is with somewhat of a shock that he discovers how deep-seated is American nationalism and how widely it differs from the colonialism amidst which he has grown up in Canada. He listens to Americans talking amongst themselves about their national interests and policies, and he finds himself very often taking offence at their habit of treating Englishmen as foreigners. They assume as a matter of course that Britain is a great power with a particular body of interests of her own and that the United States is another power with distinct interests of her own. And a Canadian listening to them realizes that, however much of a Canadian nationalist he may have thought himself at home, he has never quite been able to regard Britain as an outsider in this detached impersonal way. Particular Americans may be violently anti-British, but the general American attitude towards Britain is one neither of animosity nor of affection. It is simply that of one independent people to another. What the Canadian misses is the filial piety which is so much a part of his own attitude that he had not been quite aware of it until he lived amongst neighbours. |
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