Word: yankeeism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acknowledging the academic character of his audience, Martin spoke at length on Latin intellectualism. "Philosophical Marxism provides an outlet for the latent anti-Yankeeism of many South American intellectuals. These men act as a respectable background for the extremist who, for his own reasons, hates...
Puritanism degenerated into "Yankeeism because of this corruption, Niebuhr asserted. The Puritans were so extreme that they "regarded every storm as a revelation of God's wrath." If events went well, the Puritans slipped into "the complacent identification of virtue with success...
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