Globalization, Americans are belatedly discovering, meant not that the citizens of the world would become Westerners but rather that the world would superficially look at times American. Such a world would more likely absorb Americans into something antithetical to their own foundations and freedoms - something akin to westernizing abroad while at home de-westernizing.
What arrogantly began as an Americanization of the globe has ended up as a globalization of America.
- Victor Davis Hanson in The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
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