Nayla Taniajura’s Reviews > How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States > Status Update

This book was going so so so well...and then made the weirdest implication that Palestine didn't exist :/

Insane levels of language erasure happened EVERYWHERE

The existence of oil has always been an excuse to continue imperialism and maintain the existence of empire.

The fact that the Puerto Rican Birth Control medical trials are NOT included in clinical/research ethics courses is HORRIFYING. Most studies are Western/American-based in those courses and well, um Puerto Rico has been considered part of the U.S. since 1898.

Ummm wanting to capture/kidnap the president of the Philippines in the 40s sounds awfully like capturing/kidnapping the president of Venezuela in 2026. History repeats itself fr

The medical experimentation of the U.S. empire on Puerto Ricans is, if not exactly, then horrifically near-Holocaust level bioexperimentation.

The U.S. spreads disease and uses curing it as an excuse to enter the country and exert its "influence." Ex: Puerto Rico and hookworm disease

Wonder when the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women starts...

So Baguio was quite literally made from the ground up for Americans 😑

Genocide. The U.S. committed genocide in the Philippines and schools say NOTHING about it.

Using colonized peoples as entertainment so the "mainlanders" are aware of their existence is fucking disgusting.