[ExI] America: Home of All Evil

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 17:34:58 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Kevin Freels <kevinfreels at insightbb.com> wrote:
>  Those with little power always resent those with more power. This is
> normal. If the US disappeared, someone else would become the "most" powerful
> nation and they would then become the object of disdain. Before the US it
> was Germany, and Russia, and the British and the French, and so it goes on.
> One day someone else will take the reigns - and they can be hated just the
> same.

There is however a difference. Globalisation, especially cultural
globalisation (say, monoglottism),  appears as an "Americanisation"
from abroad (even though it may have little to do with any copying of
the actual US society), and it is a phenomenon that has little
precedents in old-style imperialism.

Stefano Vaj



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