People who travel abroad seem to enjoy sending back reports on what people are like in various countries they visit. A variety of national stereotypes is part and parcel of popular knowledge. Italians are said to be "volatile," Germans "hard-working," the Dutch "clean," the Swiss "neat," the English "reserved," and so on. The habit of making generalizations about national groups is not a modern invention. Byzantine war manuals contain careful notes on the department of foreign populations, and Americans still recognize themselves in the brilliant national portrait drawn by Alexis de Tocqueville more than 100 years ago. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows conformance in the futuristic America through schooling, leisure, and fear.
Still the skeptical student must always come back to the question: "How do I know that what is said about a foreign group is true?" Prejudice and personal bias may color such accounts, and in the absence of objective evidence it is not easy to distinguish between fact and fiction. Thus the problem faced by the modern investigator who wishes to go beyond literary description is how to make an objective analysis of behavioral differences among national groups. By this he means simply an analysis that is not based on subjective judgments and that can be verified by
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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features a fictional and futuristic fireman named Guy Montag. As a fireman. Montag does not set out fires. Alternatively, he starts them in order to fire books and, fundamentally, cognition to the human race. He does not hold any 2nd ideas about his duty until he meets seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan. She reveals many admirations of the universe to Montag and causes him to rethink what he is making in firing books. After his negotiations with her. the society’s obeisance to the jurisprudence that bans cognition. thought. and creativeness besides progressively distresses