Does that scare anyone else?
2007-07-03 03:07:13 · 12 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes but if you read the details of us taking the Phillepeans and Guam it was the same thing. I mean the concept.
2007-07-03 03:11:28 · update #1
Ok this frightens me even more. This is pretty basic American History people.
2007-07-03 03:12:51 · update #2
hisgloryofgod: Why does freedom of religion only include YOUR god?
2007-07-03 03:25:53 · update #3
Yes I've always thought it was a ridiculous, vain, and really scary idea. I said so in my 7th grade history class and got weird looks.
2007-07-03 03:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think we are. I think the original founders got it right. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..."
Endowed. Not given, not taken, they are ours. And that means everyone, we are Sri Lankans as much as we are Minnesotans. Are we exceptional? Damn right we are. That's not a boast, it's a job description. We walked out of the first World Trade Organization, the British Empire, for those ideals. And we have the job of living up to them. There is a Manifest Destiny, to let freedom ring. Not for the pleutocrats in Washington (and I live there) or on Wall Street but for everyone, in everyland.
2007-07-03 03:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as American's consume 80% of the world's resources, America will stay stuck in Manifest Destiny. Americans assume they are entitled to a middle-class lifestyle enabled by cheap oil and exploitation of the world's poor and insist that their politicians help them maintain that lifestyle. Industrialists and service industry leaders get richer from middle-class consumption. Manifest destiny serves those agendas. Until you are ready to drastically cut consumption by about 90%, Americans and the rest of the world are stuck with the fallout from manifest destiny.
2007-07-03 03:11:37 · answer #3 · answered by jaicee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is basic American history? Is it the history of how God blessed a nation which was founded primarily on the principle of freedom? Is it the story of how God fearing Americans fought for and won their freedom? Is it the story of how freedoms are being stripped away now because America has turned away from God?
Does the fear of God and freedom have an obvious and certain correlation?
2007-07-03 03:21:31 · answer #4 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Not really sure what that means exactly.....
Can you give me some details? Like for instance.....what exactly is manifest destiny?
Edit:
I'm 37 years old and far removed from my school days. I probably learned this somewhere along the line but have forgotten it. I never cared much about US History.
2007-07-03 03:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
America thinks it is still operating in the old 'Manifest Destiny' mode but actually, we are on the receiving end of it these days. Our culture is being swallowed. C'est la vie!
2007-07-03 03:11:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think American imperialist expansion has pretty well played itself out.
2007-07-03 03:14:21 · answer #7 · answered by Murazor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I don't think this country needs to grow any, we have enough land.
Also small US owned places are sometimes used for slave labor.
2007-07-03 03:11:28 · answer #8 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything must end sooner or later
2007-07-03 03:12:48 · answer #9 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we got to the pacific a while ago.
2007-07-03 03:10:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋