Is it dead in America? Watching America has a fascinating article translated from the original Italian. Here’s WA’s lead-in description:
What ever happened to the American dream, when young people yearned to mimic the independent, enterprising image of the cowboy on the prairie, and struck out on their own, free of the constraints of parental guidance? According to this op-ed article from Italy’s La Stampa, the days of John Wayne and James Dean are long gone, as Western children tie themselves ever more tightly to their mother’s apron string.
Read the entire piece (another great article you find on WA that you don’t find anywhere else).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.