No, it is different, at least in degree if not at the extremes. My wife is an American and the directness and bluntness with which she and her family talk to ea

No, it is different, at least in degree if not at the extremes. My wife is an American and the directness and bluntness with which she and her family talk to each other still shocks me after 15 years of knowing them. Even if there are practical limits to American free speech, it’s apparent from simple inspection that there’s a distinctive cultural basis for this political right.