The American political culture centers on a set of core ideals--liberty, equality, diversity, self-government, and individualism--that serve as the people's common bond. ... These ideals were rooted in the country's European heritage, and early America's vast open lands and abundant natural resources influenced their growth. They became America's common bond and today are the basis of their political culture. ...

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Marx and Engels belonged to the third generation of the "great Romantic current in European thought and culture" and therefore all of their convictions were idealistic and Romantic in design. ... In fact, the year The Communist Manifesto was published, revolutions erupted in Europe related to attempts of the middle class to increase their power at the expense of the monarchy and the aristocracy. ...

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The sheer amalgamation of cultures and eras comes together wonderfully and uniquely and is easily identifiable by simply looking at the objects that render a city a city "the buildings. ... For centuries, countries in Europe suffered from massed creative oppression due to sanctions imposed by theocratic governments, but artistic freedom made a resurgence in the 1400's. ... The twenty years superseding World War II, brought along a massive new influence spreading regime in Eastern Europe. ... With the impregnable shadow transposed by the iron curtain gone, Eastern Europe was quick ...

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Less Developed Nation: A country with a large rate of population growth, coupled with low national income, along with substantial unemployment and dependence on other countries for commodities Mixed Economy: An economy with characteristics of multiple types of other economies, where both public and private enterprises own pieces of each aspect Nationalization: To bring to a national level; to unify a country or to bring under the control of a nation, specifically industries or land Neoliberalism: "New liberalism ", a combination of liberal political views with an interest in economic growth...

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Another factor that led to the Red scare was the formation of worker's unions that fought for better wages and working conditions for the millions of American workers (many of them immigrants or first generation Americans from Southern and Eastern Europe - Italians, Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, who were looked at with great suspicion and dislike by many native born and more established Americans). ... Constitution and the democratic traditions and beliefs that was so much a part of America and its culture would be ignored and a ugly campaign of intimidation and government attacks on ...

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The heroine of Kunderas book is the tortued Tamina; who in yearning to keep her recollections of her dead husband alive within her mind hearkens to the situation of Czechloslovakian culture and identity as a whole. ... This is a problem of identity that Kundera is quick to point out; "In the course of a mere half- century, it (Central Europe/Czechloslovakia) experienced democracy, fascism, revolution, Stalinist terror as well as the disintegration of Stalinism, German and Russian occupation, mass deportations, the death of the West in its own land." ...

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The local lords response to the crisis was often to commission political agents (acting in a role not so unlike that of the "knights" of feudal Europe, whose primary mission in life was to reproduce, through political coercive force or the threat thereof, the feudal culture, political hierarchy, and economic arrangements) to take violent action against the peasantry, to attempt coercive suppression of the rebellion. ...

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In Fathers and Sons, I did get a sense of disgust from some with the results of the rest of the European revolutions, but also others strong desire to revolutionize the "old ways." ... In conclusion, I deduce the ideal state is what ever accustoms itself to the citizens of the culture and society best. ...

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Karl Marx wrote a fair amount about the Jews of Europe, regarding Judaism as a "stupid superstition," and the Jews as a community were caught in the vise of capitalism from which only the revolution can free them (Pipes 11). ... According to the Marxist view of culture, economic relations are the primary ruling factor in all social relations (Worsley 72). ... Ideologies are the ideas that exist in a culture. ...

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He traveled all over Europe, Italy and German for the most part. ... This is one of Lawrence's most savage and compact critiques of what he elsewhere calls "the god-damn bourgeoisie- and of individuals who, despite their natural or potential goodness, "swallow culture bait- and hence become victims to the world they (wrongly) believe holds the key to human happiness (Watkins 295). ...

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