Open AccessDe-Americanization of the USA: Causes and Consequences
Author(s) -
Natalia TRAVKINA,
Vladimir VASILIEV
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2021-2-3-34-49
Subject(s) - ideology , americanization , democracy , race (biology) , politics , sociology , diversity (politics) , culture of the united states , value (mathematics) , happening , gender studies , political economy , environmental ethics , political science , history , law , anthropology , philosophy , machine learning , performance art , computer science , art history
The article analyzes fundamental shifts happening in basic values of today’s American society and its ideological paradigm. A survival confrontation has engulfed nearly all social and political groups. This value confrontation has taken the form of an ideological struggle around the concepts of cancel culture and critical race theory. The new trends associated with discourse of racial and cultural diversity are at odds with the centuries-old system of basic American values, which have defined the thinking of white Americans, the so-called WASPs. If the new trends eventually prevail, this will mean de-Americanization of America we have known. At least this would dramatically change both its self-identification and the outside perception towards the USA’s democratic political institutions.