There are many Americans who don't think of the US as a land born of genocide and suckled on slavery and cradled in manifest destiny, all the while declaring itself to be the greatest thing to happen to mankind since the Code of Hammurabi.
O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
Robert Burns
In the family of nations, America is a child, more accurately an infant.
As a fine piece I lost the link to mentioned, much of the ills of the world today are merely unpleasant side effects of the blip that consists of the economic preeminence of Europe these last few centuries.
Is the United States a nation at all? In the sense that it declares itself to be so, and thereby becomes one according to the institutions and constructs of its own design, sure.
But it is a nation in the same sense as Kurdistan? Iran? China? Egypt?
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