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  • Hating America

    11/19/2004 11:27:21 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 33 replies · 1,943+ views
    Frontpage Mag/The Hudson Review ^ | November 19, 2004 | Bruce Bawer
    I moved from the U.S. to Europe in 1998, and I’ve been drawing comparisons ever since. Living in turn in the Netherlands, where kids come out of high school able to speak four languages, where gay marriage is a non-issue, and where book-buying levels are the world’s highest, and in Norway, where a staggering percentage of people read three newspapers a day and where respect for learning is reflected even in Oslo place names (“Professor Aschehoug Square”; “Professor Birkeland Road”), I was tempted at one point to write a book lamenting Americans’ anti-intellectualism—their indifference to foreign languages, ignorance of history,...