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According to Russell Banks, Americans are begining to open up to the rest of the world
The American writer Russell Banks, interviewed by Sylvain Bourmeau, analyses the view his compatriots have of the rest of the world. "When I was younger, I never grasped the extent to which America was an imperial power, because I was right in the middle of the Empire. When you're in the middle of the Empire, it is very difficult to understand. You can't see what your own country, your own people, your own culture are doing. But when I left the country and settled in Jamaica during the 1970s, I was able to fully measure how much imperialism had forged the fate of this little country. .. [Americans] are realising how much we are connected, ... . It is slow, but this awareness of the world is developing. It is inevitable, a positive aspect of globalisation, if ever there was one. Americans are being obliged to realise that there is a world beyond its frontiers."
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Russell Banks on the "intimate conflict" of Americans
The American novelist Russell Banks, who is publishing a book entitled 'America, our History', explains in an interview with Nathalie Crom why the Americans are torn between idealism and materialism. "There was a double motor in the colonisation that came from Europe from the 17th century: on one hand, that of the puritanical English, a religious, ethical and let's say spiritual intention; on the other hand, with the Spanish, French and Dutch colonialists, a more materialistic intention with an aim of exploiting the American continent for its riches. These two tendencies merged to engender the national culture and the profound values of the new American nation. It happens that between these two tendencies, there is, I believe, not just one contradiction, but a real conflict. And in this sense, Americans have been, right from their very origins, at war with themselves, plunged in an intimate conflict."
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