That may or may not be true (at the very least, the British aren’t the first postcolonial nation to undergo such a problem). But what is true is that we Americans are in a similar position. We don’t like to acknowledge it; we don’t like to think about it in those terms, but we’re in the midst of our own identity crisis and have been for some time.
ur friends the British are forever being accused of suffering through an identity crisis. Ever since Brexit or Thatcherism or Suez, the thinking goes, the United Kingdom has never figured out what its place in the world is, at least against the vast empire it once commanded. The Union Jack soars, “Rule Britannia!” plays, but it all comes off as sentimental nostalgia for a time when Britain’s role was much more etched and sharply defined.
It remains an open question: In the year 2021, what is America?
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