American Wall Street Movement against Americanism, Americanization and Americanity
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Occupy Wall Street was a flag which went to the hands of the American protestors. This flag reflected the simulation of Occupy Wall Street to the occupation of Palestine and the main reference of the protest was aimed at Zionism. The deep roots of this occupation dates back to the occupation of the American Natives’ territories and in fact the same American monopoly in the path of American history in various fields including the US economic and financial system has been reflected. The main question of this paper is why Occupy Wall Street movement emerged as a serious social movement in America. In response to this question, it is discussed that the one percent American society that is a symbol of the minority exclusivism over the majority, is caught in exceptionism in three levels of epistemic, program and institutional. American people’s protest was not merely against the economic situation but against the “exceptionist social system”. This American exceptionism has created a crisis for the ruling majority. This means the realization of minority instead of democracy and in a more accurate interpretation “democracy crisis”. In this paper, various aspects of epistemic, program and institutional exceptionism joined by the Occupy Wall Street movement will be explained.
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Persian
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دوفصلنامه مطالعات سیاسی اجتماعی جهان, Volume:2 Issue: 1, 2012
Page:
93
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