http://benschmidt.org/HIST1234/?p=532 HIST 1234 at Northeastern University, Fall 2014 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.18 http://benschmidt.org/HIST1234/?p=532#comment-39 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:13:23 +0000 http://benschmidt.org/HIST1234/?p=532#comment-39 I also found interesting Bourne’s notions of US Culture as being a new type of culture, one which the world had yet to see. He compares this newly-developing American culture to the fairly well-established and unchanging cultures of Europe, each of which is well-defined culturally, geographically, and politically. Bourne says that the development of this new, unique American culture will not be obtained in the same way as the Europeans gains their cultures, which has been put rather interestingly to the modern reader by Bourne, as through “swagger and thrill … to national self-feeling” (92). American culture will instead be defined by a melting pot of sorts, a melting pot of intellect that forms, in Bourne’s eyes, a better culture.

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