VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 17 days ago"Yankees not like it when someone threatens to annex your country against your will?"discuss.onlineimagemessage-square160linkfedilinkarrow-up1865arrow-down111
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minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·16 days agoI do always get a bit of a chuckle that the chunk of time when America was the British gets taught and treated as American as if the USA was already a thing. It’s very strange.
minus-squareTranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 days agoYeap, a lot of people didn’t really start seeing themselves as culturally American until the 1840s.
I do always get a bit of a chuckle that the chunk of time when America was the British gets taught and treated as American as if the USA was already a thing.
It’s very strange.
Yeap, a lot of people didn’t really start seeing themselves as culturally American until the 1840s.