SILAS
ABOYMI
NORTH AMERICA: THE
ENGINE, THE POWER,
AND THE FORCE THAT
DRIVES THE WORLD.
North America-an
extraordinary
geographical
territory-
a mini
earth-possessing all-
features found on
planet earth;
its climatic
conditions are many
varied,
its waters are
many and great,
surrounded by
three oceans and
multiple rivers,
among its rivers
are Missouri,
Mississippi,
Yucon, St. Lawrence,
Rio Grande,
Nelson-Saskatchewan.
Land of Great
Lakes
Superior, Ontario,
Erie,
Michigan, and
Huron,
earth largest group
of
freshwater.
Home to the three-
beyond-description-
collective-waterfalls-
Horseshoe,
American, and
Bridal Veil,
commonly called
Niagara Falls;
outstanding and
very
amazing landmark,
beauty, power, and
decoration of
North America.
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
THE KING OF THE WORLD.
North America-home
to
most powerful
country in
history-United
States-
the land driven by
the
three-related
ideas,
which come from
its
exceptional
outlook-
American
Revolution,
Americanism, and
Republicanism.
America-scientific
bedrock of
mankind-
land of social and
political
engineering,
land-where
breathtaking and-
weird events
always take place.
United States-the
land-
originally owned
by
six major Indian
cultures of
Adena, Coles
Creek, Hohokam,
Ancestral
Puebloan,
Mississippian, and
Iroquois cultures,
with several
thousands
sub-cultures is
now
the king of
mankind.
United States-the
land of immigrants-
from Europe,
Africa, Asia, and
the Pacific has
become the
global
headquarters of all human
activities;
by means of
entertainment,
military might,
economy,
political power,
and
mass
communication,
United States has
created
a global culture,
Americanism.
Americanism-a
living culture-
rooted in
traditions and customs
of liberty,
egalitarian, and individualism,
a way of life for
all citizens;
a required
condition for non-
citizens through
acculturation
by means of
assimilation,
a blend and a
change in character,
through
learning and socialization,
which always
result in
exceptional
transformation
once the culture
is adopted.
A public square
for
democratic
enterprises,
global agora for
gender and
equal rights’
matters,
platform where
economic
empowerment
rhetoric,
financial, and
religious
freedom are
packaged,
exported to other
parts of
the world.
For decades,
North
America-through
United States has
continued
to control and
dictate-
global political,
economic,
social, and
culture order.
Through hard and
soft sciences,
by means of hard
and soft news,
threats and
rewards,
stick and carrot,
America’s
deafening roars from
President of the
United States-
POTUS-continue to
reach
all corners of
earth with
awe and trembling.
From her mega
cities are
international
organizations
that control the
world;
in her coaster and
inner cities
are multinational
corporations-
profit and
non-profit organizations-
richer and
powerful more than
many sovereign
nations on earth.
Unfriendly
governments
and regimes,
these northern
hemisphere
corporate
organizations
uproot at will;
friendly
governments,
they shield even
when
unfriendly to
their citizens
with all features
associated
with despotic
regime.
Its military-the
five-
“uniformed
services” Army,
Navy, Marine
Corps,
Air Force, and
Coast Guard
constitute most
powerful
military in
history;
stronger than
ancient
Roman’s army of
infantry,
cavalry, equites
or celeres,
and Greek’s
hoplite phalanx.
This Army operates
in over
hundred countries
and bases
around the globe
and
operational
command
headquarters,
located in
Washington DC.
With global spread
and
tentacles,
American military controls
seas, lands, air,
and major
world waterways in
order to
promote and
protect its
national and
global interests.
Because of its
military power,
strength, and
dominance,
America has become
global
Police Force and,
its president is
world’s
chief security
officer.
Every time, world
political
actors wait or
receive
command from
POTUS,
including
international
organizations that
take
directives from
POTUS.
Global economic
activities are
conducted and
routed through
its currency-the
Dollar-
through Bretton
Woods, or
World Bank Group,
world economic
activities
it micro-manage.
By means of short
and long
terms loans from
international
organizations,
developing
nations’ economies,
it has on her
palms;
by means of free
trade and
unrestrained
access to
global markets,
world it controls;
by means of
customs duty and
subsidies removal
on essential
goods and
services,
world economy it
directs.
The land every
living adores,
the land dead once
revered,
still the land the
some
exprobate;
land of “hero and
heroism,” and
land that takes
pride in its
exceptionalism.
SILAS OLA ABAYOMI
SILAS
OLA ABAYOMI, was a former Assistant Professor of Mass Communication
and Journalism, Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Lagos, Nigeria. He taught International Communication, Mass Media
and Politics, Media Economy, African Communication Systems among others. Upon
relocating to United States of America, he changed his research focus and
interest form Mass Communication to Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, and
History. Recently, he published an-eight-hundred-page-history on Yoruba people
of Westerm Nigeria; the research work covers history, culture, religion,
language, tradition, social and political institutions, legal structure before
European's arrival to Africa . Details are now posted at:www.yorupedia.com. A
unique resource website for scholars and students undertaking advanced programs
on Yoruba cultural studies.He is an author with over four hundred poetry
covering wide range of socio-cultural, economic and political issues at local
and international levels. Abayomi teaches anthropology, linguistics, and
history. He lives in United States.
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