A new paper suggests the phenomenon may be global—not American
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“Team america: world police”, a comedy puppet film, pokes fun at American self-importance. The theme song boasts of the things the country has created: McDonald’s, the nfl and rock-and-roll; also, less plausibly, liberty, Christmas and books. New work by David Rozado of Te Pukenga–New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology suggests something else that Americans did not invent: the “woke” phenomenon.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Global pandemic”
From the April 15th 2023 edition
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