Beet
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« on: March 26, 2017, 03:38:03 PM » |
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In kindergarten, I remember my teacher proudly explaining that America was NOT an empire because we didn't conquer lands. This I believed until circa early 2003, when people on both the left and right started using the E word, but I choose to hold onto childhood beliefs.
Of course America is not really an Empire. We do not have a great number of peoples under a single sovereign authority, we are one people: the American people. You could make a case for Guam or Puerto Rico, but it's marginal.
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