Question

history question

Chicano studies 102

In your opinion, does Manifest Destiny still exist in American society today?

Answer 1

Not only in our history books, but the people here today use this manifest destiny, but not quite in the ways we read about it in our history books. This shows that when we go camping in national parks one way we still prove manifest destiny is. This is because we continue to demonstrate our attempts to try and conquer or take away our vast areas of land as we did during manifest destiny. This is interesting because like our ancestors in the 1800s or earlier in the 13 colonies we lived our entire life in civilized towns, or at least some sort of society back then. However, there might have been a lot of wasting our lives making it dull and tedious.

We decided to go out and discover more areas outside the city like our ancestors, or we were more selfish and only decided more land for ourselves. For today's country, these will be the government-set national parks. Like the land back then west of the Mississippi, the national parks are, for now, giant unclaimed territory undisturbed by humanity.

The United States, once again, believed they were the best in the world. Perhaps because they believed they were one of the world's superpowers, or simply because they believed it was based on fate in god that they believed they had given them all these ideas and powers over the years. This may be one of the unexplained reasons that the U.S. is at conflict with Iraq and Afghanistan. We try to make them more like us, because we think that we are the best. And in a sense, manifest destiny still exists in the United States world of today. Although it may not be exactly like the one we thought about in the class of history, it is still a very similar concept that some people would call it manifest destiny today