Captain America National Hero Analysis

To start with, patriotism and national identity are rather difficult issues to examine due to the fact that their meanings are changing over the time. The feeling of belonging to particular nation is forming on the basement of shared past events or, correctly, the collective memories about these events. These memories promote the information about the previous achievements of the nation and present narratives of its glory and uniqueness. It the time of the nationalism now not only in the USA but also in Europe due to the fact that globalization processes do not provide the population of the planet with the common source of identity as well as the ideology of cosmopolitanism in the post-modern world not. However, one of the strongest unifying factors in every nation is its symbols among which the symbol of national hero is one of the most strongest. While Captain America, without any doubt, can be considered as a typical image of the USA national hero, there are several problems with this notion in particular …show more content…
(Goldsmith, 1760) When Goldsmith puts the example with the men who consider all European nations to be strange and unattractive except of the English one, which is rather ridiculous. Nevertheless, as for the Captain America, he imbues all the traits that the American citizen is supposed to have in order to be “the true” American. He is brave, strong, and ready to protect the world on the whole and especially the lovely USA, always have big muscles and overcome every difficult situation. So, the image of Captain America allocates in itself a lot of stereotypes of the hegemonic white masculine society which is the American one and which is respected by its members as an ideal for