New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks writes in Why Not Here?:
"But if there is one soft-power gift America does possess, it is this tendency to imagine new worlds. As Malzahn goes on to note, 'In a country of immigrants like the United States, one actually pushes for change. ... We Europeans always want to have the world from yesterday, whereas the Americans strive for the world of tomorrow.'"
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