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This 3 page report discusses how dissent has come to be seen in America as somehow less than patriotic. Americans appear to have developed an attitude that dissent does not serve the greater purposes of the nation or, at the very least, dissent is actually irritating rather than motivating. Most Americans believe that dissent must only take place in circumstance in which it is clearly dissent that supports the greater ideals of America. Anything less is both pointless and unpatriotic. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Cooperation is what is valued as America prepares to finish out the 20th century. Cant we all just get along? After all, Im okay and youre okay.
There is only room for dissent when it does not threaten the existence of those who feel no particular need to oppose the status quo. In other words, Americans
have come to believe that dissent is a legitimate and acceptable process, just as long as it doesnt get in the way of non-dissenters. Speaking with One Voice Perhaps
the rationale that exists behind the disapproval of dissent is the old adage in which "I can criticize my spouse, child, parent but you better not say a word."
Americans believe that presenting a unified face to the world is an important aspect of the continuity with which other nations view the United States. Such an attitude has
been in place, at least, since World War II and codified as a desirable national mindset throughout the Cold War. For example,
the admirable goals of the radio program, Voice of America, demonstrate the ways in which Americans are/were committed to getting information to countries without access to knowledge of international events.
Nonetheless, even VOAs projection of domestic political harmony and its minimization of dissent highlights the essential vagueness of the containment consensus as presented to foreign audiences. In order to
uphold the appearance of consensus, the VOA reiterated in vague language the end goals of the United States foreign policy, continually glossing over the debate over means (Krugler 28). Such
presentations often failed to keep listeners abroad accurately informed but still kept them better informed than they had been. To have suggested that there was argument over the issues in
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