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fandomsecrets2013-06-11 06:57 pm
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I agree that the term USian is incredibly stupid, but the United States is kind of an empire. Not on the scale that Britain is/was, but I think it still qualifies. It's most apparent in the Pacific, where American Samoa, the American Virgin Islands, Guam, and others islands are all ultimately governed by the United States. The takeover of Hawaii is textbook imperialism -- and I'm saying this as an American.
These islands aren't anywhere near the United States, and their citizens initially had almost no shared cultural background with mainland America.
The only way this situation differs from your definition of an empire is that there is no monarch. Frankly, I think that distinction makes very little practical difference.