Hail, fellow countryman! Speaking from the POV of a 57-year-old native American whose relocations have induced lasting anomie, I endorse your conclusion that "Americanization is the process of gaining an alienated, rootless, community-less existence that feels like your life is on hold elsewhere."
>... There
>is a natural individualism and Nietzschean blond beast righteousness
>to the American psyche, character and personality (coupled with an
>earnestness that transcends both cynicism and sentimentality) that I
>do not generally find in others.
America's missionary spirit is arguably the world's greatest menace.
Carl
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