ABSTRACT
Citizenship has undergone many changes in conjunction with globalization. The networks of interdependency and identity that people depend on in day-to-day life are increasingly woven across political boundaries. This chapter provides an excursion into French views of "America" by considering the ways in which citizenship is evolving as a result of greater interconnection and globalization and it reflects the role played by various media in this re-bounding of citizenship. It is necessary to comment on the choice of French discourses as our "lens" on America and on worldviews of America. Nationalism probably accounts for much of the disparagement of the European Union (EU) by its citizens. The consciousness of American citizenship has evolved during the past century as a consequence of American geopolitical dominance – the dominance that Henry Luce captured with the term "American century" in 1941.
