dazzleman
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« on: July 27, 2005, 03:43:00 PM » |
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There has always been a strong anti-urban undertone to US politics, and this is a reflection of it.
Our country was partially founded on a dread of crowded European cities, and we were thought to offer something different and better. The implication is that the person who is closer to nature, closer to the land, is more in touch with reality than the one who is separated from it.
Is this opinion accurate? In some ways yes, in some ways no. I can't say the invocation of small town value really bothers me. I favor what are called "small town values" over "urban" values. The only problem is that what really goes on in small towns does not always reflect the values attributed to them, and the same thing goes for the city.
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