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>this is typical puffery by the ascendent Anglo-Saxons who were looking for a superiority narrative By what metric was there not superiority?
by yucky 4y ago
>this is typical puffery by the ascendent Anglo-Saxons who were looking for a superiority narrative
By what metric was there not superiority?
- pishpash 4y agoAt the time? The Revolution-era US was none of the things that the linked article quotes as examples of exceptional greatness. It was a relative backwater, facing internal and external security threats and struggling to get a national government working.
- yucky 4y agoEven then you had superiority over the native population in every metric (economic, health, education etc) unless I'm missing something.