"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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Ch. XVIII: Autonomy and Utopia, p. 373
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David Riesman
1909 – 2002
US-amerikanischer Soziologe
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