America an Epitome
To achieve is to bring to a successful end, to accomplish. This verb is an accurate description of both Europe and America, in that America has attained a utopian status in the eyes of Jean Baudrillard where as Europe has reached the status of reverence; the New World coinciding with the Old.
In Europe, one may stumble across the birthplaces of the greatest philosophers, artists, astronomers, and scholars. This just reinforces his statement: "When I see Americans, particularly American intellectuals, casting a nostalgic eye towards Europe, its history, its metaphysics, its cuisine, and its past, I tell myself that this is just a case of unhappy transference (112.)" The nostalgia stems from respect and admiration to the Continent that gave birth to the Land of the Free. It is reasonable for yearning minds to wander back to Europe and pay the respects it deserves by observing the history from which many American citizens have derived. In exemplum, the Nina,......
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