Globalism and the Culture of American Consumption
The United States has long been a world leader on many fronts. The presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt may have been the first to declare openly that Americans wanted to show that they were a global power, but the U.S. had long had interest in global politics. In the last decade of the eighteenth century, America fought land and sea battles in the Mediterranean against the Barbary pirates (Sassen 216). The Marine Hymn which talks of "the shores of Tripoli" is dedicated to that conflict in which U.S. Marines first fought on foreign soil. An intrepid spirit has caused the free men and women of America to create innovations in business, finance, war, agriculture, and other industries that have been the envy of the rest of the world. This has produced a certain amount of arrogance among the people and leaders of the nation that has led America to also be the largest consuming nation in the world (Friedman 37). While this may not seem like an issue, it has contributed to a view from many people around the world that the people of the United States are indeed both unnaturally arrogant and take too much of the world's goods. For a country which only contains approximately 4.5% of the world's population, Americans consume more than any other nation by far. It is the conjecture of this essay that America's culture of consumption is the driving force behind the degradation of democracy and anti-American sentiment overseas.
Democracy
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Unfortunately, the current citizens of the United States have lost much of what the founders intended (Friedman 121). And this is not the fault of one particular ideology or political party. The people in America have...
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