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kim (kam) - 2005-06-03 16:28:49
Have you ever read "The Way We Never Were" by Stephanie Coontz? It's a fascinating read. It really shows how the "American character" (rugged individualism) is pure falacy. "Pull yourself by your bootstraps" means "deny the help you were given". "My mother was a saint" shows the idealization of motherhood. Being snarky and sarcastic, it spoke to the cynic in me ;)
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