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yes it is
USA is a new kind of imperialism.
if before, empires conquered land and peoples using force, today it's done by culture and mass media.
in post-modern thinking, liberalism is considered to be a force historically dictated by the financial elite to rule one free right particulary - the right of the big ones to eat the small ones.
this is why every country which opened it's doors to the capitalistic western culture found itself being eaten by the microsofts and mcdonalds of the west with less and less financial independence because if it wouldnt open it's doors it means no foreign investments, and in our global world which 25% of the money in the world is in the hands of american (4% of the population), no investments mean financial death.
this is how the us controls the world, not by force, but by microsoft, intel, Mc, IBM taxes money...
the only countries who get some independence are the huge sized countries which refuse to become fully capitalistic, and go only half the way with government's regulation over foreign investments.
like china...
globalization is the new imperialism. this is a consensus in contemporary social sceinces.
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