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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More double standards
Message-ID: <1771@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 13:24:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 13:24:12 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <815@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:

[Talking about "Is there an American Empire"]


>But I *am* talking about political dominance.  An empire occurs when
>one cultural entity politically dominates another.  In the U.S., there
>are no cultural entities in the sense I mean that are being dominated.
>(There may be such an entity developing in southern Florida.  I find
>the situation there quite worrisome.)  The idea of the blacks in this
>country forming a separate nation is preposterous.
>

How about Puerto Rico, Guam, Philipines, virtually all of Central America?

The Romans allowed a degree of autonomy to the outer provinces of its
empire.  It was still an empire.

The United States culturally and politically dominates every country
in Central America except Cuba.  We have in the past unilaterally
replaced governments not to our liking.  We call it our "backyard"
(are we Nicaragua's backyard?  Do they have the right to fund contras
against us?).

No political leader can make policy in Central America without asking,
"How will the US govt. react to this?"




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