The differences between Europe and the United States in cultural and social values are apparent not only in terms of attitudes towards the welfare state (vis-à-vis which differences of subjective views are possibly greater than narrowing objective discrepancies), but increasingly with regard to the use of violence by individuals (e.g. the right of Americans to bear arms) or by the state (with a prison population of two million-plus and its widespread recourse to legal executions, the US comes second only to China, and bears little resemblance to the EU).
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