The Coming Crisis Between...Divergence of Advanced Nations - Emmanuel Todd

World Disorder Lecture Series - Emmanuel Todd
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
"The Coming Crisis between Germany and the United States: The Cultural Divergence of Advanced Nations"
Globalization means ever narrowing distances between nations. But national value systems do not converge, especially those of advanced nations, although the world's elite labor under the false assumption that they do. The social anthropology of family systems explains the divergence of advanced nations; some are firmly rooted in liberal, individualistic values (the US, the UK, France), while others have retained more authoritarian value systems and a specific potential for collective integration and action (Germany, Japan, Russia). In this talk, Emmanuel Todd will take the diverging paths of the US and Germany (rather than all too obvious Russia) as a case study. Todd will discuss how the resistance of German culture to neoliberalism has turned the country, again, into the major European power, which today controls a continent, the industrial power of which is superior to that of the U.S. As Todd will explain, Germany pursues independent economic and geopolitical objectives, some of which will lead to major crises, and he posits that it will be difficult for American leaders to go on denying that they have a problem with their too powerful ally.
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[@TomWick]

It is Jan 2023 and this is worth watching if you haven’t or re-watching if you forgot.

[@chris8949]

One of the great ones and for sure a clear mind !

[@rockyfjord4710]

An important voice in the world today.

[@etbadaboum]

Todd avait raison !

[@uliu6132]

How things have changed. The world was a different place six years ago.

[@vincentvanhee6791]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@yb8909]

The guy is a GENIUS but his English is dreadful! I fell asleep - literally!!! - which never happens to me when I listen to him...

[@elrevah]

He's got a way better accent as I have ;)

[@donomar4815]

Only a morrocan Guy like you Can have such a dumb remark

[@youbetternotplaythatnashee898]

@@donomar4815 Oh shut your hole. And go dwell on andy murray, crowder or some other channel for the worms you have for brains.

[@fluxidentity]

do you prefer Žižek?

[@georgesj.5995]

Pour quelqu'un qui se targue d'avoir des attaches anglo-saxonnes et malgré ses études doctorales en Angleterre, je trouve son anglais très bon mais pas parfait. Cela m'étonne un peu... His english seems very good but not 100% perfect... It astonishes me a little...

[@dupondavignon869]

Parfait par rapport à quoi ? J'étais également curieux de son accent, et il est plus correct que je ne le pensais. L'anglais d'un Américain semblerait médiocre au vu d'un Britannique ; je dirais que l'anglais de Todd est meilleur que celui d'un Américain ou d'un Indien (pour lesquels l'anglais est la première langue). Et il y a la pratique pour le débit ; si tu ne pratiques pas tu perds en fluidité. Suffit de voir JCVD, full francophone d'origine, et qui parle maintenant mieux anglais que français.

dupon davignon Absolutely. An American can't speak English. That's an impressive statement if I ever heard one. I shall quote you in future Linguistics publications. Thank you and cheers.

[@saidaliouane3031]

Je trouve que son anglais est meilleur que son français.

[@Wazoox]

@ Mark Twain famously said something along "Americans and English have very similar habits, eat the same things, wear the same clothes, they would really be very similar if only they'd speak the same language".