Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
Europe has such an expansive history.
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
History is more interesting than most people think.
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.