It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.