Following along the fresh seam of the previous post. It would be interesting to do a cross-cultural study with research done in both the US and the UK. According to my good book ‘Collossus’ , the United States is an empire in denial. Do people in the United States agree with him? I’d wager they don’t, and wouldn’t want to. They maintain a bitter culturally embedded resentment to the United States being an empire.
Perhaps another road to follow would be whether or not people see the United Kingdom as an influential player on the world stage or a satellite regime that bends to United States (As North Korea is to China).
Maybe this is simply all a small part of what of Hunting calls ‘The Clash of Civilisations’. If I’m going to follow down this road or rather highway as it seems, I’m going to need greater clarity than this. I maybe biting off more than I can chew.
Filed under: Dissertation, Ideas
