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Alex Edwards
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This intro was so deviously good. My pre-established beliefs about America and its territories are only being strengthened and reinforced with knew factoids! Fun Fact: All modern American currency is based on the colonial Philippinian Peso NOT the other way around
— Jul 11, 2026 03:40PM
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Alex Edwards
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“How typically American to writhe in anguish at the fate if a distant cousin while a daughter is being raped in the back room” - Manuel Quezon on America abandoning the Philippines to the Japanese to defend England during WWII. Bars.
— Jul 14, 2026 04:27AM
Alex Edwards
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My biggest takeaway that I did vaguely know about but has only been extrapolated on in this book…people not only KNEW that how the settlers behaved towards non-whites was wrong but were AGAST and filed formal complaints about it. But the Federal Government just ignored them because it was advantageous to the nation…
— Jul 12, 2026 07:16AM