Read, read, Read Waldo Emerson et découvrez le visage de l'Amérique et des Américains que les médias ne vous montrent jamais...

(pas forcément volontairement, ou par calcul politique.... souvent par méconnaissance mais il arrive aussi que ce soit par manichéisme)

As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American.

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