Thanks for another incredibly insightful essay professor! There are many more examples you could easily find of American hubris and double standards. When we criticize China's Uygar policy it is a simple layup for Xi to bring up our Japanese internment camps or the lynchings that took place in the south all the way up until 1981!
All of Brands' essays get an A, but this one earns an A+. During the Balkan wars of the 90s, an American academic who wrote a book on the conflict said that American criticism of the Serbs (Serbia's Milosevic was portrayed in the western media as the Hitler of the Balkans) should be tempered by humility. As he put it: "Let not the nation that brought six million Africans to the US in chains and that exterminated entire Native American tribes presume to lecture the Serbs on ethnic cleansing."
Thanks for another incredibly insightful essay professor! There are many more examples you could easily find of American hubris and double standards. When we criticize China's Uygar policy it is a simple layup for Xi to bring up our Japanese internment camps or the lynchings that took place in the south all the way up until 1981!
All of Brands' essays get an A, but this one earns an A+. During the Balkan wars of the 90s, an American academic who wrote a book on the conflict said that American criticism of the Serbs (Serbia's Milosevic was portrayed in the western media as the Hitler of the Balkans) should be tempered by humility. As he put it: "Let not the nation that brought six million Africans to the US in chains and that exterminated entire Native American tribes presume to lecture the Serbs on ethnic cleansing."