Als Anglist hatte ich eine Zeit lang gar keine große Lust, in die USA zu reisen, inzwischen freu ich mich aber sehr darauf. Und ich habe bei H. G. Wells gelernt, dass die USA the first of great modern nations" sind:
This great community of the United States is an altogether new thing in history. There have been great empires before with populations exceeding 100 millions, but these were associations of divergent peoples; there has never been one single people on this scale before. We want a new term for this new thing. We call the United States a country just as we call France or Holland a country. But the two things are as different as an automobile and a one-horse shay. They are the creations of different periods and different conditions; they are going to work at a different pace and in an entirely different way. The United States in scale and possibility is halfway between a European state and a United States of all the world.
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