The Great American Identity Crisis: Manipulative Conditioned Power as Driver of Cognitive Dissonance in American Identity
摘要
Identity is contingent upon belief and drives the formation of interest; the social agent wields power to satisfy their interest and by extension identity and beliefs. American national identity has evolved from the City upon the Hill to Manifest Destiny to American exceptionalism and now America First. This chapter examines how national identity exists, from where it comes, and its impacts on a multicultural, heterogenous society.