Almost 200 years ago, a French diplomat, Alexis De Tocqueville, visited the United States and recorded his impressions of his travels in a tome titled “Democracy in America.”
“Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest — his children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind; as for the rest of his fellow-citizens, he is close to them, but he sees them not — he touches them, but he feels them not; he exists but in himself and for himself alone; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country.”
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