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European misperceptions of the American middle West
Kansas City Star argues that Europe misreads the Midwest and that Americans know Europe better than Europeans know the Midwest. Harold Callender’s New York Times piece is cited praising Midwestern hospitality, culture, and modernity, while noting Europe’s own provincial biases.
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Europe
America
New York Times
Harold Callender
American Middle West
Pacific Coast
Callender
Midwest
Kansas City
Kansas
Middle States
Neville Chamberlain
Middle West
United States
Chamberlain
Mr. Chamberlain
Grand Central
Pennsylvania
New York
London
Oxford Street
West End
Sixteenth
Paris
England
Nelson Gallery of Art
Turner
Western States
Great Britain
Atlantic Seaboard
Atlantic
Britain
Germany
France
Touraine
Neiter
Wurttemberg
Staffordshire
East
Kansas City Star