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Lawrence: It's a common misconception perpetuated by condescending Europeans that this is a young country, that we're somehow a naive people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Did you know that Philadelphia was the second city of the British Empire, when Manchester and Glasgow were as nothing? Shakespeare's The Tempest was based on the wreck of the Sea Venture, en route to Jamestown, 1609. The oldest representative democracy in the world. But the European intelligentsia, they just love that stereotyped view. They like the situate the American as an insufficiently developed, adolescent proto-European who, given time enough, will evolve into civilized and socialized decadence and decay. Look, we're almost there
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It's a common misconception perpetuated by condescending Europeans
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that this is a young country that we're somehow a naive people
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Nothing could be further from the truth
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Do you know that Philadelphia was the second city of the British Empire
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when Manchester and Glasgow were nothing
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Shakespeare's The Tempest was based on the wreck of the Sea Venture
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en route to Jamestown 1609 the oldest representative democracy in the world
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But the European intelligentsia they just love that stereotyped view
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They like to situate the American as an insufficiently developed
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adolescent proto European who given time enough
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will evolve into civilized and socialized decadence and decay
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Look we're almost there
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Movie Summary
A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina. She gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
