Author: CDOCHTERMAN

I had been in South Africa for over a month at this point, traveling from Cape Town to Johannesburg and back, and had just moved into my homestay in the Bo Kaap area of Cape Town the past week. In this new location I felt a greater sense of independence, which allowed me to freely…

One aspect of American identity that I find uniquely interesting are the core concepts of individualism and personal autonomy. The ideology of individual responsibility in the United States has been utilized as a tool which continues to influence the country’s political landscape. Individualism in written into the nation’s bedrock with lines like “the land of…