{"id":57,"date":"2019-09-22T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/?p=57"},"modified":"2020-04-15T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:42:11","slug":"57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/2019\/09\/22\/57\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro- and Anti-Americanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe that being a member of Generation Z has shaped the way I see pro- and anti- American sentiments. Growing up in a post 9\/11 society, I have only ever known a pretty divided country. On the news, we would regularly see stories of Al Qaeda and ISIS, and they were often labeled \u201canti-American\u201d groups that sought to destroy our way of life. Because of this, I think that some people unconsciously started to associate being anti-American or being against western ideals with terrorism. I saw anti-American sentiments as not believing in the American dream or the values that America claims to hold as its highest ideals. I used to feel that being pro-American meant that you were very patriotic and believed our country\u2019s founding ideals of freedom and equality without really questioning our nation\u2019s hypocrisy. However, I now believe that you can have pro-American sentiments while still acknowledging America\u2019s shortcomings. This is important because I think that without understanding where our past policies have gone wrong, we will never be able to learn and grow as a country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that being a member of Generation Z has shaped the way I see pro- and anti- American sentiments. Growing up in a post&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/2019\/09\/22\/57\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pro- and Anti-Americanism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-topic-2","post_format-post-format-link","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/worldandus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}