Little America

Little America

“Why do we want to become members of the European Union? Because we haven’t been invited to join the United States.” Let us imagine the eternal Wessi and the eternal Ossi, typical figures in German popular discourse, talking in a pub about what the Wessi calls eastern enlargement. For him or her, EU...

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Published in:The Anti-American Century
Main Author: Kovacs, Janos Matyas
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Hungary Central European University Press 2007
Subjects:
History
Sociology
Eastern and Central Europe
United States
Carabean
communitarianism
socialism
Balkans
Latin America
anti-Americanism
South Korea
Southeast Asia
pro-Americanism
economic cultures
European Union
antisemitism
capitalism
communism
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Summary:“Why do we want to become members of the European Union? Because we haven’t been invited to join the United States.” Let us imagine the eternal Wessi and the eternal Ossi, typical figures in German popular discourse, talking in a pub about what the Wessi calls eastern enlargement. For him or her, EU membership not only covers all the civilizational benefits the “West” generously and light-mindedly offers to the “east” but also refers to the Westward expansion, a sort of “Western enlargement” ...
ISBN:9789637326806
9637326804