'New America'

De Crevecoeur describes a real American as someone who left all his beliefs and ways of doing behind, and starts a way of life. ‘(…) leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced (…)’. He tries to describe to ‘American way of life as better than others and a way to escape from life and start over.
On this website it became clear to me how nowadays they still try to have this ‘new way of life’ by improving and by trying to be better than other ways.
http://www.newamerica.net/about
It is a website about a new America foundation. It explains how this foundation is set up to make every generation in America better than the first one. The way they call it new America makes me think of how De Crevecoeur describes an American as a new man.
On this website they use the phrase ‘New America’ as a very positive term, as a tabula rasa, a clean slate. It was launched in 1999 which is as good as new. It tries to form debates and ideas about problems which have formed over the last 20 years, therefore they set up programs like college savings and economic growth. As site like this really a typical presentation of how new and optimistic the American lifestyle is compared to for example the European lifestyle, which is a much older and wiser way of thinking.
This all comes back to De Crevecoeur’s ‘escape from England’ to this ‘new world’ where the ‘new man’ comes along.