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imperial systemTraditional system of units developed in the UK, based largely on the foot, pound, and second (f.p.s.) system. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The foundational fraud of our post-1913 imperial system is the dollar itself, an elaborately decorated scrap of paper that has been entirely decoupled from precious metals and is treated as legal tender only because the government requires people to accept it as such. Beginning in the 1920s, the European nations themselves started to replace the term "empire" with words that connoted more equality between the various territories in the imperial system. Cultural misperceptions played into the Spanish need to vindicate their imperial system and help reveal the multiple ways discourses about gender and sexuality described less about colonized peoples and more about colonizers' needs, fears, and self-justifying dogmas and delusions. |
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