The United States Is The Most Powerful Nation Of The World

Many other countries had similar ideals but different forms of government; America’s commitment to republicanism caused them to push their ideals on other smaller countries. Bradford Perkins explores the concept of a distorted prism, which he believes effects how America looks at the world and the effect it has on the development of the United States foreign policy. In his scholarly essay, “The Unique American Prism” Perkins believes America views herself as a model for the world to follow. These American ideals of individualism and republicanism are the main concepts discussed within the essay; he mentions how people distort the prism by their own personal experiences with which allows them to perceive the world as less than equal to America’s superiority. This can lead to problems in foreign policy due to the superiority complex. Perkins views this American exceptionalism as detrimental to foreign relations. He believes in isolation from foreign wars and conflicts, but is irresolute to decide if America’s global market should be expanded through foreign

The soil of the middle-east stained with the blood of our American soldiers just so we can not take advantage of our right to vote. Though sometimes questionable, America's overall image portrayed to other countries is an honorable one. America is known for its democracy and as well as being a land of opportunities and many freedoms. America's assortment of ethnicities and cultures is proof that our country is a desirable one. Wars are being fought at this very moment to defend these freedoms.

The American attitude towards foreignness has always been evolving. From the Revolution era to the WWI era, opinions towards countries that are not the United States have went back and forth. One can conclude that the United States had a very strong stance against any form of foreignness because immigrants were promised a false hope of America, the racism that occurred in daily life, and the extremely racist ideas portrayed through World War I propaganda posters.

Since its inhabitance, competition and dominance has been a concept that remains prevalent throughout American life. Past ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, Cultural Imperialism, and Ethnocentrism are all practices and beliefs comprising what it means to be American for many citizens, while also continually shaping outside perception of Americans today. On one hand, many countries have and continue to fully embrace American culture, globalization, and the rise of capitalism. In contrast, many countries have and continue to reject America’s stride for world assimilation regarding their ideals and values.

The political climate that we enjoy today is much different from the political climate of our origins. The United States has come a long way from being under the rule of King George III. Although there are similar democracies around the world, the United States is unique in the way that we conduct politics. What other countries around the world regard liberty and equality as high as America? Our Declaration of Independence says it all “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of

To analyze how the world views America, we need to examine exactly just how America treats the rest of the world. “Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq ….” (Arya, Barker, Donohoe, Gorman, Hagopian, Lubens, Rohde, White, Wiist, 2014). America has engaged in wars and operations throughout the entire world and has become involved in foreign affairs where their participation is unwelcome and unwanted. “I'd feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets. The self-righteous, gun-totin', military-lovin', sister-marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-lothin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America

Several decades, post and after 9/11, America is known as the most influential nation in the world or the world super power. She has influenced other cultures and is known for her morals, her freedom, her aids to other nations or charitable organizations and her democracy. Nevertheless, America had positive reputation decades ago, but of recent; America’s image throughout the world vary, 9/11 brought light to that. NBC did a recent survey which shows that American’s image in our countries or nationalities is bad and worsening. What do other countries think about American’s culture? Why America reputation is worsening? What reasons are behind America's reputation, good or bad? How do Americans view American?

America stands for freedom and diversity. It’s about people of all different races, background, and history coming together to form one big country. I also think America stands for freedom of speech. It’s one of the big reason why foreigners move here. That what makes America so great we have so many people from all over who have experienced so many different things and have different perspectives and they can come to together and make a good plan for us as a country. Some countries you 're not even allowed to have freedom of speech. Countries like Burma, North Korea, Turkmenistan and Libya people are not allowed to say negative things about politics and if they think the country is being run the wrong way. If they do then they can have serious penalties. America though is a place where people can speak their mind and not have any penalty for it. It 's one of the many key attractions for so many people coming here and it being the 3rd biggest country with 322 million people and it being considered one of the world 's more diverse countries. I think we want to be perceived at country that is welcoming and friendly to newcomers. We fill that role pretty well. I was looking up on how americans are perceived on google and come across many blogs where foreigners had responses on their opinions on how they see americans. Most people were really positive on what they thought about americans. They liked their friendliness and would go back to America if they had the chance.

We now know that the United States are just appearances and nothing more. Like the saying “don't judge a book by it's cover” because sinclair once thought the U.S was the perfect place to be, but quickly discovered that it was the exact opposite of that. Back then before this novel was published we lived in a world of horror, no one knew if their meat was diseased or if they would die because of food poisoning. But now we live in a country that not only honors our freedom but respects and looks over our health. All thanks to upton sinclair and his novel that attracted the president

Even in our movies, a negative image of our government is being portrayed. The movie, Team America: World Police, is about an international police force dedicated to maintain global stability. Just in the title, the movie suggests that America polices the world consistently and our government goes on thinking that is the right thing to do. Michael Medved, the author of “That’s Entertainment, Hollywood’s Contribution to Anti-Americanism Abroad,” even says that the administration will “use the methods of Rambo to destroy evil” (Medved 779). As our government is becoming more aggressive, the more violent and false patriotism is being portrayed in our media today.

The United States has always been a country of rapid growth, improvement and change. The transformation America went through for a few decades in the past century marked critically important events that influenced history to the fullest. Facing good and bad times, every citizen would agree to say the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a dream.” Whether it was fighting for change and personal rights, or entertaining oneself to ignore the feeling of being deprived of daily necessities and ability to afford them, there came a time of social unity to address the substantial issues. Popular Culture impacted each decade in its unique and inimitable way, which brought forth changes critically necessary for the United States to be formed into

Individualistic societies. America is an individualistic society. An individualistic society is, according to Very Well, “Individualistic cultures are those that stress the needs of the individual over the needs of the group as a whole. In this type of culture, people are seen as independent and autonomous. Social behavior tends to be dictated by the attitudes and preferences of individuals.” This causes, as mentioned before, the point of view where many Americans see others that are not like them as non-humans. So when we view other countries, we don’t see them like they see us and vice versa. This can cause something called the fundamental attribution error. According to study.com, the fundamental attribution error is “Our tendency to explain someone else’s behavior based on internal factors.” an example the website provides is: “Your professor is angry at the class for getting bad grades. You attribute that by thinking he has a bad temper when in reality he is just concerned about the classes grades. This is the fundamental attribution error.” An example to show where our spoiled America is making a mistake at is in the most recent news. According to our media outlets, Assad (the 19th president of Syria) had gassed his own people. This followed with conflicting reports that Syria had allegedly moved all of its chemical weapons out of the country, and Assad actually appearing on local television to say that the most

America’s foreign policy affects each and every person in the world in terms of prices, taxes, supply of gasoline, and the lives of our soldiers also depends on how we associate with US. This country can bring hope to the lives of the poorest people in the world. It is because of their persona that they are able to respect the lives of others who are not even their own. Most American citizens believe in embracing their values, justice, fairness, democracy, a helping hand when there is need and hard work. Their values are applied from their households, to

In truth, its history dates back as far as the sixteenth century, following the first great expansion of European capitalism, which resulted in slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism (Ezema, 2009). Throughout history, world powers have continually sought to perpetuate their way of life: from the philosophy and mythology of the Greeks, the political ideologies and linguistics of the Romans, and the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Daghrir, 2013). Thus, it comes as no surprise that the aftermath of the post-war era, which saw the collapse of Soviet communism and the emergence of the United States as the sole hegemon, saw the aggressive spread of American ideals, values, and beliefs. Indeed, just as American goods flooded world markets in the post-World War II era; American culture now penetrates every continent through the aggressive development of mass communications, trade expansion and information technology.

Every country has their issues, but they deal with them differently, while the United States push their’s aside and deal with it when the problem has gotten out of control. All of this resonates with me because we are quick to pass judgement among other cultures and countries, but have we taken a look at what they might think of us, how sometimes as a country we can be a