From Baby Boomers to The Plastic Generation – Max Kolonko at The Goethe Institute in Berlin
“In a sense we can talk about exceptionalism of American youth which stems from the exceptionalism of America; the most powerful economic and political system of the twentieth century. America’s military, political, economic and cultural hegemony in the modern world is comparable to France of Louis XIV which established French economic, military and cultural domination on most of the seventeen century Europe forcing European monarchies to adopt the French language and French style “(…) Read the essay
In that sense we can talk about exceptionalism of American youth which stems from the exceptionalism of America; the most powerful economic and political system of the twentieth century. America’s military, political, economic and cultural hegemony in the modern world is comparable to France of Louis XIV which established French economic, military and cultural domination on most of the seventeen century Europe forcing European monarchies to adopt the French language and French style.
