BEYOND TOCQUEVILLE, MYRDAL, AND HARTZ: THE MULTIPLE TRADITIONS IN AMERICA ROGERS M. SMITH Yale University Analysts of American politics since Tocquevile

Elayne Guzman

 BEYOND TOCQUEVILLE, MYRDAL, AND HARTZ:  THE MULTIPLE TRADITIONS IN AMERICA  ROGERS M. SMITH Yale University  Analysts of American politics since Tocqueville

 Quote:

"Many adherents of Ascriptive Americanist outlooks insisted that the nation's political and economic structures should formally reflect natural and cultural inequalities, even at the cost of violating doctrines of universal right"

Meaning:

It means that there is a growing attention to human rights in debates on cultural inequalities concerning the disproportional impact in political and economical structures. For about a century, economic and political inequality has been measure on a scale from one to zero. The growing income inequality is responsible for all manner of political instability, as well as for the slowing economical and political growth. In inequalities in all its forms is the defining global problem and increasingly the defining political problem of this era.

Chosen:

I chose this quote because it reflects our political and economical system. our political economy is designed to create poverty and inequality which has led to social, political and economic disorganization with a chronic instability that create severe emotional difficulties in our nation. We are all created equal, indeed, but all do not have the same access to privilege, which leads to inequalities within our society, inequality which is not reflected or address in our political and economical system.

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