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In this sentence 'the aforementioned (American way of life and culture)' is what 'that' is really saying.

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I would understand it as the forementioned (American way of life and culture) if the original sentence were 'almost everyone is glad to show him that . But it's 'that way and that culture'. If it's the forementioned, grammatically it's going to be 'American way of life' way and 'American culture' culture, which is obviously redundant and awkward.

I agree. Perhaps I should have said it represents the 'American ....'
It's pretty sloppy.

Hmm...Aren't there any possibility that it is one of these kind of 'that'?

Examples:

Here comes that silly laugh of his!
He couldn't control that temper of his.
When do you intend to repay that five dollars?

I think it's still reduntant if 'that' in the sentence refers to 'American'.

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Hi Taka,

It works for me, but let's see what others think.

Cheers

OK.

By the way, the sentences are followed by this:

If we are near an automobile plant, we will show him of course an assembly line and the tourist spots in the city. And perhaps we will show him a farm and a school. And we will tell him the favorable generalities that we have been tought about ourselves, which may happen to be the same favorable generalities he too ha

I would say it's 'American' too.

The writer has to repeat the sense, as he's moving from 'what is studied' to 'what is shown' in relation to 'what is studied'. He doesn't want to repeat the whole phrase; so the variation depends on replacing the defining word ('American') with a reference back to the defining word ('that').

The parallel is maintained in the 2 'whats' that foll

I see. Thank you, people!