by Ziauddin Sardar, Merryl Wyn Davies · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474329582
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Why is the perception of Americans so different from that of the rest of the world? Why is the presumption of innocence and righteousness so important to their self-image? Why is the American people so extremely ignorant about international affairs? Why does it try to impose its culture as if it were the only possible one? Sardar and Wyn Davies take these questions as a starting point to analyze, based on a tour of the consequences of the economic, military and cultural expansion of the United States throughout the world, the causes that have generated a feeling of shared hatred outside the country. This feeling is directed against a system that arbitrarily imposes its values, deciding what it means to be civilized, rational, developed and democratic. The key to overcoming this hatred and its dangers lies, according to the authors, in the United States itself. American citizens must open their eyes and see that they are not living in an ideal state, look outwards to know, think, learn, listen and respect the differences of all who live together on this Earth. Only in this way can they prevent this hatred from continuing to spread, causing an escalation of violence even more extreme that prevents restoring world balance.
Ziauddin Sardar is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies, Critique of modernity, postmodernism and science and cultural relations. He has written and edited more than 60 books. Prospect magazine named him as one of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals and The Independent newspaper called him: 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'.
