Power Discrepancies and The American Empire.
For many years now, "First World Nations" have seen themselves as a sort of super governing body for the entire world. They constantly try to exert their intentions and ideologies onto other nations that may not be as technologically developed as they are. An obvious example of this would be the British Empire from about 500 years ago up until the mid-1900s. But even now in a period where we consider those types of issues to be behind us, at least in how politicians would have us believe, there is still much discrepancy between the power that certain "First World Nations" and many "Third World Nations" carry. This is discussed heavily in Stewart Hall's piece, "The West and the Rest", where Hall speaks of the rise of the concept of "The West" and how that eventually gave birth to "The Rest". Hall's writing speaks of how "The West", even as just a concept, shows how Eurocentric much of our language is when spea...