Utiopia Achieved

Jean Baudrillard wrote "Utopia Achieved" to explain America to Europeans; at that time, he felt that Europeans needed to become more like Americans to survive when Europe left communism. Both then and now, America was seen as the utopia of the world, the model for everyone else. Though other countries and peoples strive to be American and constantly hear about America, Americans do not know much about other countries. If Americans do not know about or understand the rest of the world, then they are not taking their responsibility as role model seriously. This was a good read for me, I actually found this stimulating and it was nice to read something that I have never really thought about before. For it being a fairly short read, I feel like I actually took something away from this