“America humiliated” - USians as a colonizing-based “culture” have never experienced humiliation and losing empire status would still not be that, it would just mean having to admit they’re not a superior breed of human.
I feel like humiliation on a cultural scale of a whole people should be a term reserved for colonized, imperialized peoples and the like, who have been subjugated en masse and treated as subhuman for some external force’s benefit.
Not that I expect the DailyMail to use anything resembling nuanced language. But I still want to make the point.
“America humiliated” - USians as a colonizing-based “culture” have never experienced humiliation and losing empire status would still not be that, it would just mean having to admit they’re not a superior breed of human.
I feel like humiliation on a cultural scale of a whole people should be a term reserved for colonized, imperialized peoples and the like, who have been subjugated en masse and treated as subhuman for some external force’s benefit.
Not that I expect the DailyMail to use anything resembling nuanced language. But I still want to make the point.
For the average American, having a colored couple as neighbor counts as humiliation.