Americans have grown accustomed to what they call the "American way". This is in a brief way being able to move to American and adapt to what is already here. Opposed to bringing other customs here. Implying that it will only lead to problems. This shows our problems with other countries.
Unable to adapt to another countries way of living or customs leads to problems for the United States. Being able to understand and adapt to these different ways of living avoids Conflict seeing is how we would not be looking at our way of living to be the best way of living.
I believe that that is one thing that this book is trying to tell us. In order for the United States to avoid conflict we must FULLY adapt to different customs and ways of living. This is the key to achieving a more peaceful world.
I agree America's unwillingness to adapt to other countries customs has caused us to engage in more conflicts with them. I do not think adapting to other countries customs will lead to problems because they offer different perspectives on policies. However, the government should not have to fully adapt to different customs or ways of living. That is what makes us unique and at times, we seem to know better than the countries because we have dealt with the same types of political and economic problems before. We can offer advice to them and it should be their decision to take it.
ReplyDeleteI kind of wrote about this subject as well, and I agree with you that soccer reflects the American unwillingness to adopt any other culture. I never considered this before, but it's actually surprisingly true. I'm not sure that by adopting other cultures we can avoid conflict entirely, but it may certainly help us maintain peace.
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