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The song was a reaction to the varying difficult issues facing America in the late 1970s – the fallout from the Watergate scandal, the simultaneous double-digit inflation, unemployment, and prime interest rates (leading to the misery index), and the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.
“Why don’t we liberate these United States/ We’re the ones need it the worst/ Let the rest of the world help us for a change/ And let’s rebuild America first,” goes one part of the song.
"A song like this is an incredible way to remind him he's perfect just the way he is," she wrote in the caption. A commenter responded, "My daughter screaming this song in the car had healed a ...
The song's lyrics, as well as its video, are a critique of America's cultural imperialism, political propaganda and role as a global policeman. [1] The two verses are sung in German with a chorus in Denglisch : "We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar, We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika" and "We're all living in Amerika ...
After the 1990s, the protest song found renewed popularity around the world after the turn of both the century and the "Third Millennium" as a result of the 9/11 attacks in America, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in the Middle East, with America's former president George W. Bush facing the majority of the criticism.
As summer begins to wind down, most children and teenagers across the U.S. are getting ready to head back to school. Not far behind the start of the school year is the typical start of the season ...
The video begins with a map of the United States, which is then almost obscured by a text that says "This Is Not America", made by Chilean Alfredo Jaar, which was placed in New York City in 1987, with the name "A Logo for America". [11] Later, a woman acting as Lolita Lebrón shoots three times into the sky in the video before being arrested. [5]
The charter is part of the high-achieving Success Academies network of 57-school charter schools, the largest in the city. Many of its students in eighth grade want to continue their studies at ...