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As cultural critic Rüdiger Steinlein notes, Kürnberger’s main concern is to present America to the German reader as a thoroughly negative fantasy land.24 America appears as a destructive, terrifying space, aimed directly at undermining and destroying the unique culture and way of life of Germany. Emigrants to the United States would not find a youthful, fresh, unadulterated place, but instead a society driven by greed and profit and unacquainted with folkways or fatherland, a place where the metropolis of New York served as an admonishing example of the excesses of the United States as a whole.
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Andrei S. Markovits (Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (The Public Square Book 5))