In this article we use the term "Imperialism" rather than the currently more popular term "Empire" to characterize of recent American power. Imperialism implies an aggressive expansion of a country's influence on other countries. On the contrary, the term "Empire" suggests a stable state like that of ancient Rome. America cannot establish herself as such a stable state as a fundamental characteristic of the United States is one of dynamic expansionism. A feature of America's history from her British colonial days until today has been one of continual expansion of her influence over others. American Imperialism is the biggest disaster to affect all of the people of earth, not only for non-Americans but for Americans themselves. It destroys them through every aspect of life: culturally, economically, politically, socially and militarily. In other words, American Imperialism is often referred to as globalization. Globalization is no more than global Americanization. For non-Americans, Americanization ruins their lifestyles, just like those of the Native American Indians. In this article, a few aspects relating to the destructive character of Americanization are analyzed and discussed. From an economic perspective, the original sin in American history was rapid economic growth, mass production and its dynamic and speculative nature. From 1820 to 1979, America's annual economic growth was 3.8%. For the same period, the average annual growth rate for all advanced countries, including the United States, was 2.5%. Accordingly, America's growth rate is 50% higher than that of the advanced countries average! The cause of this difference comes mainly from its population growth. American population growth rate was double that of advanced countries average growth rate due to immigration from European countries and the importation of Africans as slaves; although many Native American Indians were killed. However, per capita growth is only slightly higher than that of the advanced countries' average. This was achieved because of American fertile resources supported by large tracks of land taken from Native American Indians when they were killed. Usually, economic growth is thought to be good for the whole of society. But, by my theory of mass excessive enrichment, rapid economic growth is a path to ruin for mankind, because of the destruction of the ecological environment, by exhaustion of natural resources and by distortion of human nature caused by merchandization in the pursuit of monetary gain. So, America is the leader in ruining the whole world by economic activity. Economic speculation is an important feature of the American economy. Generally speaking, speculation can be conducted in every monetary economy, but the tendency to speculate is especially strong in America. This comes from farmer's habit to speculate using the value of their land which they obtained for a pittance. Of course the land was the property of Native American Indians killed by the settlers. Land speculation and securitization instead of bank credit gave the American economy an unusual speculative character. American people want to expand this character to the whole world to make monetary gains by merchandizing every business enterprise in the world. This is the essence of globalization. Mass production represented by frequent model changes in the automobile industry played an important role of America's economic success. But the question is "are they aware of the fact that this production methods requires large tracks of cheap land for production and storage of industrial waste was achieved by killing Native American Indians? The question is how can people living in densely populated areas maintain their standards of livings and lifestyles when American production methods which cause large amounts of industrial waste are introduced due to
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