In a message dated 4/2/99 5:57:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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>  United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad

Does this have something to do with Europeans moving to the US for a time,
working, living, melting in the melting pot, and then moving back to Europe
and therefore somehow establishing an American heritage in Europe? Or is it
related to Americans who went to Europe and did things of a memorable nature
somehow related to a site or structure, and often not returning? Are we
looking for the pub where Hemingway drank in Paris? Or is it the assumption
that the heritage of America is actually from Europe, and not, let us say
from Kansas or China? If so, seems like a bit of cultural imperialism.

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