Absurd to characterize a manichaean world view as the product of "colonialism" or anything particularly American. The "my group good, other group evil" has as noted always been a thing, back to fearing the members of the primitive tribe from the next valley over. But those instincts have been exploited for profit in particular in the last couple of decades by the proliferation of variety and choice of information or opinion you can consume (while blurring the lines between those two things), a trend which has had as its obvious and inevitable result some of the most effective group polarization you could ever hope for in any controlled psychological experiment... in other words, see my signature.
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"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
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