You Are Not Alone Summary

In 2010, Andrew C. McKevitt wrote an article, “’You Are Not Alone!’”: Anime and the Globalizing of America”, about how Japanese animation, most commonly known as anime, helped globalize America. McKevitt has a PhD. from Temple University and is now working as an assistant professor a Louisiana Tech University in U.S. History. History of Foreign Relations, and Modern Europe. McKevitt is highly qualified to write an article about how American globalization was effected by anime and if he was not qualified then he would not have been published by The Society for History of American Foreign Relations. McKevitt’s article is an eye opener to how a small group of individuals’ wishes can be met on such a global scale. In the article, McKevitt talks about how anime started in America with simple watered down, like Yamato,

McKevitt had 99 sources for a 30 page article that equals out to 3 1/3 sources per page. McKevitt’s article adds to the historical knowledge of how anime helped shaped American culture. McKevitt notes in this article that one of his sources says “‘…we know more about the outgoing tide than the incoming swells’” (McKevitt 894), meaning Americans know how American culture has affected other nations, but are completely clueless to how another nation’s culture has affected America. Since McKevitt did not have a thesis so he did not succeed in arguing it, but he did give great detail for each point he brought up in his article. The article was brilliantly written with amazing stories, examples, and sources, but McKevitt used the word ‘I’ a few times in the article. McKevitt does not have a bias, he states at the very beginning what he will be talking about, which is how anime affected American culture then he supports his statement. There was no argument to whether or not anime affected and McKevitt proves it with multiple facts and