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CHRONIC. The United States seems culturally close to us, whereas religion or the role of the state dig a gap with Europe.
By Gerard Araud
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NOTe Europeans think we know the United States. Not only do we share democratic institutions with our cousins across the Atlantic and carry, like them, a project for a liberal society and economy, but we are nurtured by American cinema and music that have rocked us since our childhood. Moreover, the news always brings us back to the political life of a country which, the world’s leading power, influences our daily lives. Vacations, usually in New York, and notions of English, easily confirm this feeling of transatlantic familiarity. Each European therefore carries with him an image of the United States where the Wild West and Marilyn Monroe, weapons and obesity, the landing of June 6, 1944 and the Vi…
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