¶ … American Dream understood 1960's/1970's
16[1961], Kennedy delivered a landmark speech at the University of Washington campus in Seattle: "We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only 6% of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem" (http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1635958_1635999_1634954,00.html #ixzz2g57wnLby).It was the early sixties and the American Dream was being questioned, revised, reiterated, reinforced and, most importantly, completed with responses to matters the Americans and the rest of the world were confronted with. The Cold War, the War in Korea, the U.S. relations with Cuba, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Rights Movement, the understanding and revision of authority from all standpoints,...
Some of them, it shared with the rest of the world, some were all its own. Since the end of WWII, the world was presented with the idealist image of the U.S., the saver, the hero, and the omnipotent character that will rescue all from the powers of evil. Unfortunately, the evil had many faces and as J.F. Kennedy underlines in his speech in Seattle: "there cannot be an American solution to every world problem" http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1635958_1635999_1634954,00.html #ixzz2g57wnLby
The American Dream, which contained first and foremost the idea of "freedom," could not be successfully exported to all corners of the world. Not only were the Americans a small portion of this world, but they had problems of their own.
The American Foreign Policy of the sixties and the…
