Aaaaghh. Remember all those "ugly American" stories from back in the 1970's and before. Americans were considered rude, insensitive and perhaps, simply oblivious to the local mores and culture of the various counties we had begun to travel in.
Things changed in the late 1980's and continued through the 1990's. Now, it's back to the future ... and it's not a pretty story. In Sunday's Washington Post, Josef Joffe, publisher of a German newspaper, wonders whether the "free and the brave" have lost it. The "free and the brave" is us ... rural, urban, suburban ... all of us together! Of special note is his detail regarding the "fear tax."
That "fear tax" is driving our economy downward. Read about it here.
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