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0 pointsyucky3y ago0 comments

>this is typical puffery by the ascendent Anglo-Saxons who were looking for a superiority narrative

By what metric was there not superiority?

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At 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.

yuckyOP3y ago

Even then you had superiority over the native population in every metric (economic, health, education etc) unless I'm missing something.

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pishpash3y ago

yuckyOP3y ago

Even then you had superiority over the native population in every metric (economic, health, education etc) unless I'm missing something.

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