Hope, Arkansas to Hope, Albania: Naivete and idealism to reality and tragedy

Journal/Book: Collegium Antropol. 2000; 24: Inst Anthropological Res P O Box 290, Ulica Grada Vukovara 72/IV, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Collegium Antropologicum. 27-34.

Abstract: The wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo were perpretrated by a radical nationalist Serbian cultural political consciousness that the American cultural political consciousness and leadership had difficulty responding to and understanding. There is a great cultural divide between a 'pathology' in Serbian culture, Milosevic's radical nationalism, and a humane 'naivete' in American cultural consciousness. I discuss why, finally, American political leadership, Bill Clinton from Hope, Arkansas, responded to the tragedy of these tears. However we are still left with the question of good us evil: What is the course of human history; psychotic political leadership causing repetitive human tragedy or can there be a higher humane and moral order to human cultural events?.

Note: Article Bennett BC, Appalachian State Univ, Dept Anthropol, Boone,NC 28608 USA

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