Crossword clues for americanism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Americanism \A*mer"i*can*ism\, n.
Attachment to the United States.
A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.
A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, in reference to words or phrases distinct from British use, coined by John Witherspoon (1723-1794), president of Princeton College, from American + -ism. (American English "English language as spoken in the United States" is first recorded 1806, in Webster.) Americanism in the patriotic sense "attachment to the U.S." is attested from 1797, first found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson.\n\nI have been not a little disappointed, and made suspicious of my own judgment, on seeing the Edinburgh Reviews, the ablest critics of the age, set their faces against the introduction of new words into the English language; they are particularly apprehensive that the writers of the United States will adulterate it. Certainly so great growing a population, spread over such an extent of country, with such a variety of climates, of productions, of arts, must enlarge their language, to make it answer its purpose of expressing all ideas, the new as well as the old.
[Jefferson to John Waldo, Aug. 16, 1813]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ The term Americanism has several uses. Its chief use refers to the influence of American culture and American English. Also may be used when rebranding America to fit a more ethnocentric and elitist ideology.
Americanism was a group of related views among American Catholics, denounced as heresies by the Vatican, because they tended to endorse of the separation of church and state and encourage individualistic thinking. European "continental conservative" clerics thought they detected signs of modernism or classical liberalism of the sort the Pope had condemned in the Syllabus of Errors in 1864. They feared that these doctrines were held by and taught by many members of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States in the 1890s. Catholic leaders in the U.S., however, denied that they held these views.
Pope Leo XIII wrote against these ideas in his encyclical Testem benevolentiae nostrae to Cardinal James Gibbons. In 1898, Pope Leo XIII lamented an America where church and state are "dissevered and divorced" and wrote of his preference for a closer relationship between the Catholic Church and the State along European lines.
The long-term result was that the Irish Catholics who largely controlled the Catholic Church in the United States increasingly demonstrated their total loyalty to the Pope, and traces of liberal thought in the Catholic colleges were suppressed. At bottom it was a cultural conflict, as the continental conservative Europeans, angered at the heavy attacks on the Catholic church in Germany, France and other countries, did not appreciate the active individualism, self-confidence, and optimism of the American church.
Americanism is "an articulation of the [United States of America's] rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning." According the American Legion (a U.S. veterans' organization), Americanism is an ideology or belief in devotion, loyalty, or allegiance to the United States of America or to its flag, traditions, customs, culture, symbols, institutions, or form of government.
Usage examples of "americanism".
American people believed more in Americanism than they did in democracy.
In truth, it was, of course, a great mistake to conceive Americanism as intellectually and morally a species of Newer-Worldliness.
Just as economic and political Americanism has been broad enough and vital enough to make a place in the American social economy for the hordes of European immigrants with their many diverse national characteristics, so the intellectual basis of Americanism must be broad enough to include and vigorous enough to assimilate the special ideals and means of discipline necessary to every kind of intellectual or moral excellence.
American moral and intellectual emancipation can be achieved only by a victory over the ideas, the conditions, and the standards which make Americanism tantamount to collective irresponsibility and to the moral and intellectual subordination of the individual to a commonplace popular average.
In the sense of a person concerned with the serious matter of creating wealth it is an Americanism dating from 1830.
In its homophobic sense, the term is an Americanism first recorded in 1905, but beyond that almost nothing is known.
These schizophrenic percentages resolve themselves into the thesis of the rabbis that Judaism, Trotskyist Bolshevism, and Americanism are one and the same.
Americanism and Fordism, one of the fundamental texts for understanding the American problem from the European point of view.
In later years, actual experience led me to rewrite, awarding more Americanism, more light - and inevitably more darkness.
But all of that still didn't tarnish Hobart Quennel's unimpeachable Americanism, misguided as you might think it, or the fact that even the most scurrilous attacks on him had never been able to attach him adhesively to any subversive faction or foreign-controlled activity.
There are strong resemblances between Americanism, communism and Aryanism: all are government ideas and therefore will naturally describe characteristics of the easily-governed.
Kruschev sends his sloganeering robots into the bracero community, where they spout Commie rebop and corrupt a youth group that Big Pete has been indoctrinating into Americanism.