We have soft power, the policies of attraction that Professor Nye has so elegantly crystallized: long-term, positive, appealing aspects of American culture and society that aren't necessarily calibrated to promote a particular policy or initiative, but are always working for us in the background.

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On a stark stage flanked by the NRA flag and televisions showing a video game where children were being killed on screen, LaPierre spent more than ten minutes lambasting American society, movies, video games and the media for creating a culture of violence.

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Fewer and fewer believe that life will be better for their children than for themselves, and more Latinos are beginning to favor keeping their culture independent, as opposed to assimilating into American society.

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