Interesting chart I found on Momus' Web site. It's from the Economist and charts the countries in the world along rational/traditional and survival/self-expression values. America has a very strange place. I suppose we're a frontier country and that may be one reason we're still so traditional yet prize self-expression so much.

I was checking out Momus because we're going to Berlin in April even though I'm rather concerned with this impending war and the treatment an obvious American like myself may receive.