USA
There are real villains among us.
Individual-1 entering Airforce One.
Image: The Guardian
The US 2018 mid-terms election is done - kind of.
Since the US are no longer a British colony, they can do what they want. As long as they don't mess up the fabric of the global system of shared values, mutual trust, respect, cooperation, and safety.
Don't sell your citizens snake oil like "clean coal," "election theft," and "there is no climate change;" or use racial slurs, calling non-white people and other human beings "the blacks," "the gays," "the Muslims," "the Hispanics," the "Pocahontas" and "unknown Middle Easterners." This kind of speech is derogatory and abusive, the ugly face of racism and populism.
The top acting representative of the United States, lied 4,229 times in public since he took office, [1] using blunt lies for political gain and represents it as the holy truth.
What does this tell us about his often uttered claim that "there is no collusion with Russia?" One can almost assume that meanwhile,
the White House is just a shell company of the Kremlin.
America, the world is watching you!
But there is another problem as well. Most of the world's citizens know terrific little about the United States of America.
OK, there is Hollywood in California. Well known thanks to the motion picture industry and the annual wildfires. People heard about sunny Florida. The state with its funny buildings, inhabited by senior citizens. The state which became famous due to its inability to count votes.
There is the largest city in the USA, New York. The town which is home to the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). And there is Washington, where the US President and his 'Vice' president run their reality TV show.
But for example, a few people outside the US know there is an entire state named Washington (on the map of the USA, in the upper left corner). The same goes for New York, the state just north of the city with the same name.
So, let's get started:
50 States
Flag of the United States
Image: © nationsonline.org
The United States of America is a federal republic comprising fifty states and the Federal District of Columbia (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States).
The country covers the central part of North America. The US originated in the American War of Independence, the successful rebellion of the British colonies (aka, the original thirteen colonies against the British Empire) on the east coast of the continent in 1775–83.
After independence, the territory of the original British colonies was extended across the continent through the westward spread of more and more incoming migrants.
They came in the ten thousand, economic immigrant and religious refugees from all over Europe, soldiers of fortune, fur hunters, and gold diggers.
Since centuries the British have shipped thousands of convicts and other persons regarded as undesirable in the kingdom to the New World every year. In the US history books of today, all those people were kindly called pioneers and settlers.
The European settlement of what is now the USA was unfortunately at the expense of the original inhabitants, the Native American Indians.
So, please learn from history. 99% of the US citizens of today are descendants of immigrants! People who came to the New World in the hope to find freedom and prosperity.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
From the Declaration of Independence
Learn more about the US today, see our road trip through all of the 50 States - from Alabama to Zabriskie Point (which is not a state but begins with Z ;).
