Postcolonial

February 24, 2023

It has always stuck with me once I heard it said: America is a postcolonial country that threw off colonial oppressors in a glorious Revolution. It brings with it a different perspective on the world that Americans exist in now to know this. 

Perhaps early Americans were more available to this realization, but it's not so simple that things have changed since then. Economic independence may have been reached to a significant extent but culturally and in norms of speech there is a pervasive influence that remains.

Politically, the reversal of the Americans being conditioned as subjects and the creation of a polity constituted as pure citizens was revolutionary, but has left aspects of our separation from Britain still yet left to do. So the Americans are a postcolonial people and the United States is a postcolonial country. It's a thought-provoking realization.