Trump is making Americans see the U.S. the way the rest of the world already did

by Reposted by Light Path Resources | Feb 21, 2018 | Kingdoms Rise and Fall

Trump is making Americans see the U.S. the way the rest of the world already did: Read the article by Suzy Hansen, author of “Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World.” The Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie once observed that there are “two Americas” — one at home and one abroad. The first is the America of Hollywood, work-in-progress democracy, civil rights movements and Ellis Island. The second is the America of coups and occupations, military dictators and CIA plots, economic meddling and contempt for foreign cultures. The rest of the world knows both Americas. But as Shamsie has written, Americans don’t seem aware of the second one at all.