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COPYRIGHT 2003 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: Jeffrey Silva
Did de Tocqueville consider globalization?
The keen French observer of America in the 1830s undoubtedly was correct in realizing we are different, unique as things go and egalitarian in emphasis. De Tocqueville called it "American Exceptionalism.'' Indeed, there was not one event or influence that made America the way it is, but rather thousands of currents and forces-political, social, historical, scientific, religious, cultural and so on-in concert....
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