> > That is because the USA is the latest (and hopefully last) empire,
>> having decisively displaced European & Japanese empires by the end of
>> the Second World War. The colonized go to study, work, & sometimes
>> settle in the land of the colonizers. As no other government has
>> built as extensive an empire as the US government (which has
>> incorporated former European and Japanese colonies into its sphere of
>> influence), it is no surprise to see the most diverse population here.
>
>Do you consider yourself one of the colonized?
The army of occupation has yet to leave. :-0
>How is the distinction
>you make here different from, in another context, one distinguishing
>activists and average people?
What distinction are you referring to? -- Yoshie
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