American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination
(Sprache: Englisch)
Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States's image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners' views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In...
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Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States's image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners' views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In fact they are complex, emotional, frequently internally contradictory, and often change quickly. Barry A. Sanders corrects this misimpression with a rigorous and insightful textual analysis of the roots of people's views of the United States and what can be done to alter them. According to Sanders, the attitudes a person expresses about the United States consist of two separate components: the person's memory bank of images (informed by American geography, people, philosophy, history, and foreign policy) and a predisposition or bias that influences which images are called forth from memory.Opinion surveys, such as the Pew Global Attitude Survey, only record the spoken result of this twostep process in their tabulation of favorableA" or unfavorableA" comments. They necessarily fail to see the underlying complexity. Examining the biases or predispositions that guide people in selecting among the myriad stored images to express an opinion on a given day, Sanders analyzes both anti-American and pro-American biases but focuses on the former, explaining which criticisms should be heeded when crafting foreign policy and communicating national objectives to friends and foes alike.
Autoren-Porträt von Barry A. Sanders
Barry A. Sanders is an adjunct professor of communications studies at UCLA. He is a member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations and the West Coast-based Committee on Foreign Relations and Pacific Council on International Policy. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Barry A. Sanders
- 2011, 227 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Free Press
- ISBN-10: 1597976814
- ISBN-13: 9781597976817
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Englisch
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In this fascinating volume Barry Sanders cuts through the swirling fog of misperceptions that cloud the image of the United States, both at home and abroad. Magisterial in scope, but sharply focused and judicious in analysis, "American Avatar" is an essential read in these difficult times for all those seeking a path to rational understanding of America s place in the world. Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and author of "American Mania: When More Is Not Enough"
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