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TRAVEL<br />
<strong>The</strong> Imperial<br />
City That<br />
Americans<br />
Love To Hate<br />
By Clive Mutiso, cananews@gmail.com<br />
Travel is not just about beaches,<br />
lakes, mountains, resorts, and<br />
nightclubs, it is about getting<br />
an insight into the culture of<br />
people in different parts of the<br />
world. To start to understand Americans,<br />
and why, especially in an election year, they<br />
see themselves at war with their capital city,<br />
it can be instructive to visit Washington<br />
DC, and to learn something of its history.<br />
<strong>The</strong> United States of America may never<br />
have had a formal empire, but Washington<br />
DC has the style of an imperial city.<br />
Everything about the place is monumental,<br />
not in the sense of large in scale, but<br />
in the sense of a city destined from the<br />
beginning to become a place to create<br />
an aura of permanence, of power, and of<br />
remembrance. <strong>The</strong> average American is<br />
both proud of the place, and at the same<br />
time deeply resentful of the influence that<br />
it has on his everyday life.<br />
Washington has none of the structural<br />
engineering scale of the high-rise<br />
62 JULY - AUGUST <strong>2016</strong>
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