Interesting. Thanks for your assessment. My impression was that the author thought of the US as a hegemony Which explains more about the relationship between t

Interesting. Thanks for your assessment. My impression was that the author thought of the US as a hegemony Which explains more about the relationship between the US and other areas of the world. The explanation that you laid out regarding civics explains more of the way that people within the United States see themselves. I am not a political science expert, but these definitely seem like two different concepts. It would’ve been nice for the author to have expressed the importance of why he was making the distinction earlier in the article. I found the article to be quite obtuse.