Article note: That "Maybe don't build culture to suck itself into a black hole when it's financially convenient." is an unusual idea is really distressing.
As an immigrat … I come from another culture. And I’m aware of the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differnetly from us. I can, sort of, see us, us Americans, with their eyes. And not all that I see is attractive. I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilites, who are lazy, obese, complacent, and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined.
— (Kenyan-American Biograpeher) Edmund Morris on CBS’ Face The Nation