ABSTRACT
America has, indeed, got the better of the old continent; the New World has outdone the Old World. The Americanization of the world brought about a new kind of globalization, different from that which was formerly based on Euro-peanization and tied to colonialism. Colonialism was phased out after the Second World War, and the Third World that emerged eventually became susceptible to American influence. As every schoolchild knows, America as it is at present is overwhelmingly a product of Europe. Apart from the genes of some of its people, little else is left of the cultures and civilizations that predated the European arrival. The American boy learns unspeakably less that the German boy. In spite of an incredible number of examinations, his school life has not had the significance of turning him into an absolute creature of examinations, such as the German. The one thing the Americans did not import from Europe was totalitarianism.
