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	The European Dream
		The American Dream was born in the early modern era -- a period that saw the flowering of the individual, the development of a sophisticated private property regime, the invention of market capitalism, and the creation of the nation-state.
		The European Dream is secular to the core.
		Europeans are more reluctant to use military force and instead favor diplomacy, economic assistance, and aid to avert conflict and favor peacekeeping operations to maintain order.
	www.utne.com /cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=utne&story.id=11349 (3604 words)

	The International Association for the Study of Dreams
		The International Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.
		Our purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information.
		Members, join an E-Study Group: IASD provides many areas of dreaming where the topics are discussed by the top researchers in the field.
	www.asdreams.org /index.htm (526 words)

	washingtonpost.com: America, Wake Up to the European Dream
		The old dream, the American Dream that made the individual the master of his fate and emphasized the personal accumulation of wealth, is faltering.
		Europeans often remark that Americans "live to work," while they "work to live." Although the demands of globalization mean that Europeans have to work somewhat harder than they used to, they still get an average of five weeks' paid vacation a year, where Americans get two.
		The American Dream depends on assimilation, but the European Dream is based on nations' preserving their cultural identity and coming together in a multicultural universe.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11183-2004Oct30?language=printer (1578 words)

	[news] The European Dream
		The American Dream was born in the early modern era -- a period that saw the flowering of the individual, the development of a sophisticated private property regime, the invention of market capitalism, and the creation of the nation-state.
		The European Dream is secular to the core.
		Europeans are more reluctant to use military force and instead favor diplomacy, economic assistance, and aid to avert conflict and favor peacekeeping operations to maintain order.
	www.mail-archive.com /news@antic.org/msg06647.html (3542 words)

	The Globalist \| Global Politics -- The American Dream Vs. the European Dream
		The new European Dream is powerful because it dares to suggest a new history — with an attention to quality of life, sustainability, peace and harmony.
		Europeans are more reluctant to use military force and instead favor diplomacy, economic assistance and aid to avert conflict and prefer peacekeeping operations to maintain order.
		The new European Dream is powerful because it dares to suggest a new history, with an attention to quality of life, sustainability, peace and harmony.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4498 (977 words)

	America & Europe: Worlds Apart on the Vision Thing
		That dream has now been codified in the form of a draft European constitution, and Europeans are currently debating whether to ratify its contents and accept its underlying values as the core values of a new Europe.
		Europeans often say Americans "live to work," while they "work to live." The average paid vacation time in Europe is now six weeks a year.
		Nowhere is the contrast between the European Dream and the American Dream sharper than when it comes to the definition of personal freedom.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0817-08.htm (1394 words)

	Longitudes News & Views -> The American Dream Vs. the European Dream
		As Jeremy Rifkin sees it, the American and European dreams are - at their core - about two diametrically opposed ideas of freedom and security.
		The European Dream is focused not on amassing wealth, but rather on elevating the human spirit.
		Adapted from "The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream" by Jeremy Rifkin C Penguin 2004.
	www.longitudes.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=41 (1065 words)

	RNW: The European Dream
		The American Dream is fading and in its place a new more inclusive European vision of the future is on the rise, according to a leading US writer.
		The new "European Dream" is offering a political model for the future, which leading US author and social thinkerÂ Jeremy RifkinÂ says is quietly eclipsing the American Dream.
		Dreams require optimism - you cannot be a eurosceptic or a defeatist or a pessimist and have a European Dream - dreams require hope and you have to take risks for a dream and you have to make sacrifices."
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/amsterdamforum/050422af (1263 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin: Daring to dream \| Guardian daily comment \| Guardian Unlimited
		That dream has now been codified in the form of a draft constitution and Europeans are currently debating whether or not to ratify its contents and accept its underlying values as the core of a new Europe.
		The European dream is more systemic, bound to the welfare of the planet.
		Instead of seeing full membership in the European Union in purely negative terms, as something being forced on them by the flow of global events, the UK ought to consider Europeanisation as a historic opportunity, with vast potential benefits for the British people.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1294439,00.html (1270 words)

	The European Dream
		Europeans, he argues, bear the inheritance of centuries of cohabitation in close proximity to one another.
		Thus, “continental European parents teach their child that freedom is the quality of your relationships, the extent to which you’re connected and have access to communities, because the more embedded and the greater the quality of your relationships, the more choices you have to lead fulfilling lives.”
		The European dream is also about the acceptance, after centuries of war, of cultural diversity, whereas the American dream is based upon assimilation into the ‘melting pot’.
	www.cafebabel.com /en/article.asp?T=A&Id=1108 (887 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin: The Foundation on Economic Trends: Books: The European Dream
		While the American Dream is languishing, says bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin, a new European Dream is capturing the attention and imagination of the world.
		While the American Dream emphasizes unrestrained economic growth, personal wealth, and the pursuit of individual self-interest, the European Dream focuses more on sustainable development, quality of life, and the nurturing of community.
		Today, suggests Rifkin, a new generation of Europeans is creating a radical new dream - one better suited to meet the challenges of a globalizing world in the 21st century.
	www.foet.org /books/european-dream.html (809 words)

	Elephants Dream
		As the whole European PC and movie magazines are waiting for a first HD DVD title in Europe this will be a hugh success for your movie and I am sure this will go through the press worldwide.
		Not only that Elephants Dream is the first European HD DVD release it is also (as far as I know) the most complex HD DVD title ever release worldwide and the picture quality is really great.
		We have given the folks at Xiph, the developers and custodians of the various Ogg video and audio compression codecs, a lossless copy of the Elephants Dream audio and video, as FLAC files and a PNG sequence, and they are hosting BitTorrent downloads of them on their server.
	www.elephantsdream.org (1824 words)

	The Commons Blog: Rifkin's European Dream
		It "made the individual the master of his (sic) fate" whereas Europeans recognize that this "no longer works" in "an increasingly interdependent world." The European dream has "humbled" American companies (but his examples are all based on government regulatory actions, not on competition with European companies).
		What Rifkin doesn't say is that the American dream is driven by the private sector, while his European dream is driven by government.
		European central city populations are declining and transit ridership is stagnant.
	commonsblog.org /archives/000225.php (853 words)

	Welcome to the new cold war - Salon
		As Americans are finally beginning to notice, Europeans (or most of them, anyway) have reconstituted themselves into an enormous transnational superstate of 25 nations, 455 million people and an $11 trillion economy.
		The political leaders of the European Union are certainly willing to be partners with the United States, and potentially to be friends as well.
		If the original idea behind a united Europe was to redeem the old continent from poverty, devastation and centuries of self-destructive warfare, more recently the goal has been to build a "good superpower," one that stands as an economic and ideological counterweight to the American colossus.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2004/11/15/europe (849 words)

	Welcome to the new cold war - Salon
		As Americans are finally beginning to notice, Europeans (or most of them, anyway) have reconstituted themselves into an enormous transnational superstate of 25 nations, 455 million people and an $11 trillion economy.
		The political leaders of the European Union are certainly willing to be partners with the United States, and potentially to be friends as well.
		If the original idea behind a united Europe was to redeem the old continent from poverty, devastation and centuries of self-destructive warfare, more recently the goal has been to build a "good superpower," one that stands as an economic and ideological counterweight to the American colossus.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2004/11/15/europe/index.html (859 words)

	A dream come true - Newsday.com
		The European Union has laid out big bucks to get Charmatz and several renegade playwrights, musicians, puppeteers, polemicists and poets to New York for the first annual European Dream Festival.
		The European Dream Festival, simply by paying these performers to show up, distinguishes itself: European nations are willing to fund under-the-radar art.
		"Europeans are beginning to emulate the American system" of letting the market drive taste, says Suteu, and, unlike us, they have no tradition of philanthropy to soften the blow.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/arts/ny-ffcul4890344sep17,0,6430722.story?coll=ny-arts-headlines (933 words)

	The European Dream - cfu/Members/colin/europeandream/
		The importance of 'The European Dream' to the carfree movement is that it describes the broader effects and background of a person-centric environment.
		In 'The European Dream', carfreeness can be understood in relation to a larger vision encompassing individual, social, economic, and political development.
		In The European Dream, "carfreeness" can be seen in relation to a larger vision encompassing individual, social, economic, and political development.
	carfreeuniverse.org /Members/colin/europeandream (1189 words)

	Jeremy Rifkin on Europe's Uncertain Future: Why the European Dream Is Worth Saving - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - ...
		This is a pivotal moment for European history and the decisions made in the coming months could determine whether the EU becomes one of globalization's winners or one of its losers.
		Jeremy Rifkin is the author of "The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream" (Tarcher/Penguin: August 2004).
		Finally, whereas the European Union project is about building peace, the American Dream is heavily engaged with a very strong military because we think evil is more than a metaphor and that you must have a just but tough military hand.
	www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,366940,00.html (2002 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Roman Pomp, European Dream
		That this dream of Europe is different than its predecessors was signaled by the presence of leaders from Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, all countries which have started EU accession negotiations.
		Italy, which boasted the highest voter turnout in June’s European Parliamentary elections (73.1 percent versus a 45.5 percent EU-wide average), is, according to most studies, one of the most firmly integrationist EU countries.
		The dream of Europe that the men in front of him were attempting to stage was not his dream, nor that of those other power-hungry leaders who once aimed to unite the continent from Paris or Berlin.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=504239 (930 words)

	Review of The European Dream
		As a European, by choice, I watch with great interest as the European Union makes increasing headway toward a unity that may, one day, resemble the United States.
		Each European country has its problems with racism from either recent immigrants or those who came to the countries after decolonialization.
		But he is mistaken that there is any such thing as a European dream, in a land where people speak dozens of different languages, where they disagree on many of the fundamental ideals behind society, and where the everyday struggle to get by is often as difficult as it is in the United States.
	www.techsoc.com /eurodream.htm (1397 words)

	Amazon.com: The European Dream: Books: Jeremy Rifkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		I did not finish the European Dream with a burning desire to move to Europe; but I did finish it with a better understanding of the differing worldviews of Europeans and Americans.
		To a European, security is about being "embedded" in one's community, not about having the wealth and power to be free from the meddling of others.
		The European Dream should be read with a critical eye, but it is a good source of information for anyone who has been puzzled by the recent transatlantic squabbles.
	www.amazon.com /European-Dream-Jeremy-Rifkin/dp/1585423459 (2188 words)

	WorldAndUS: The American Dream vs. the European Dream
		American author Jeremy Rifkin was interviewed Friday in Deadline, a Danish news program, about his book “The European Dream”, in which he claims that a newly emerging European dream seems more appealing to many than the better-known American Dream (read his October 2004 article in the Washington Post).
		The European Union’s GDP was larger than he United States’ a year ago, the EU is the largest exporting power in the world today, the EU has the largest commercial market, and 61 out of the 140 world’s largest companies are European, whereas only 50 of these are American.
		According to Rifkin, a lot of young people around the world are beginning to look to this European dream the way so many generations looked to the American dream in the last century.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/worldandus/archives/2005/03/the_american_dr.php (577 words)

	Digital Crusader: European Dream
		It's been a few months now since the proposed European Constitution went down in a resounding no vote: and I think generally that it's being seen as a second chance for Europe, rather than wedge which will drive them apart.
		There are some rumblings over the common currency, for sure (the Italians especially want to blame their economic problems on it, ha!), but I do not believe that the no vote has actually set the European Dream back.
		Europeans already have slightly longer lifespans than Americans, and that gap will grow exponentially unless the US changes course soon.
	eric.transhuman.org /archives/2005/08/european_dream.html (656 words)

	Getting to 'Yes' in Europe
		Yes, the French and Dutch public have dealt a mighty blow to the prospect of a binding constitution for all of Europe, casting doubt on the future of the European Dream.
		The Socialist vote, on the other hand, was more interesting, especially in France, and suggests the possibility, at least, that the European Dream, far from being dimmed, may be entering a new stage of maturation, with profound implications for the future of Europe.
		Jeremy Rifkin is the author of ''The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0605-22.htm (827 words)

	EUROPEAN DREAM FESTIVAL
		From September 20 through October 31, 2006, the European Dream Festival will present vibrant, innovative and cutting-edge productions in dance, theater, music, film and literature from today's Europe of disappearing borders and expanding cultural diversity.
		Taking place at twenty New York City venues, the Festival is an unprecedented concerted effort by a great number of European countries, including new and aspiring members of the European Union.
		The Festival, slated to become an annual or biennial event, was initiated by the Goethe-Institut, the French Institute Alliance Française, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Czech Center—all in New York—and is supported by the European Union.
	www.eurunion.org /News/press/2006/2006EurDreamFest.htm (115 words)

	The European Dream - Jeremy Rifkin - Penguin Group (USA)
		But there is an alternative: the European Dream-a more leisurely, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable way of life.
		In The European Dream, Rifkin posits a dawning truth that only the most jingoistic can ignore: Europe's flexible, communitarian model of society, business, and citizenship is better suited to the challenges of the twenty-first century.
		Indeed, the European Dream may come to define the new century as the American Dream defined the century now past.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9781585423453,00.html (318 words)

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