What makes America Different? According to an Australian

PragerU asks: Is America really that great? Or is the United States just like any other nation? Outsiders tend to be the best judge of character, and Nick Adams, a best-selling Australian author and political commentator, gives an outsider’s view of the USA. Adams explains: I love that America is different. What worries me about…

Staff Writer Jan 15, 2018

I love that America is different. What worries me about America is that I see her increasingly trying to act like other nations. It worries me to see that so many Americans are drawn to the ossified ideas of Europe. That’s the old world. It was old in 1776 even, when America broke away from it. Why would America want to reverse its own Revolution? Why would Americans want to follow the economic and social model of a continent that they can see failing economically and socially?

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