Imperial formations. America’s empire was the theft of the North American landmass from its indigenous people. UK, the world.
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I think there's interplay between the two: perhaps the EU project gave (some) British folk the idea of influence in Europe as a continuation of empire, and the fact that the EU really isn't that at all contributed to their disillusionment and the Brexit vote.
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Sorry, massively generalising here.
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The Grand Tour wasn't an exclusively English phenomenon, though. Wealthy Germans went on grand tours long before Germany had any colonies -- long before "Germany" even existed, in fact.
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But the OP wasn't about Germany, nor were any of my responses. The point I am making is that imperial formations and desires influence how cultures orient themselves toward the rest of the world. That's it.
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