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So first of all what does the word colony. Mean well a colony is land that is settled. Or taken over by another country for example the 13 colonies were settled by european.
Even though the devastation caused by the atomic bomb was tremendous, and had killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens, the Emperor refused to back down. Surrender in the Japanese culture is shunned very harshly as it made one cowardly.
The United States historically had far less imperial actions in comparison to their European counterparts. The United States did not have massive colonial empires like Britain or France. The United States acquired some territories outside of the "continental" US however, it did not maintain an imperial presence like any of its European cohorts.
The wealth that is produced by selling the oil are creating powerful elites and also a big gap between the rich and the poor and this best describes a challenge in the Middle East resulting from oil production. A category of people in the Middle East are living a lavish life, while others are struggling to get their daily bread.
