America’s apartheid mentality toward the world
2008 April 25
April 25, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor
In an interview with Helena Cobban, author of Re-Engage: America and the World After Bush, the question “What kind of relationship do Americans want to build with the world’s 6 billion other people in the years ahead?” is asked. Cobban says that America’s current relationship with the rest of humanity has much in common with that between South Africa’s apartheid-era whites and their disfranchised non-white compatriots. She argues that Americans should start to think and act as though all of humanity constituted a single community and give fair weight to the views of the citizens of other countries on matters that affect everyone. Read more about this opinion.
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