Manifest Destiny

…Felipe, historicamente os Estados Unidos têm um movimento expansionista, partindo da independência das 13 colônias em direção ao Oeste, com vários episódios que levaram os Estados Unidos até mesmo a ilhas no Pacífico. Esse processo sempre foi associado a teorias que se misturam com a identidade do que é ser americano, o destino manifesto, a doutrina Monroe.…

…And many listeners might be familiar with the idea of Manifest Destiny, which was something that Jefferson oversaw with the Louisiana Purchase and the expansion of the western border of the United States. And so in order to justify that, in order to say this is empty land, God wanted us to have it. There was this necessity of talking about the disappearance…

…he used and called back this 19th century phrase of manifest destiny. He said, we are continuing the manifest destiny. Manifest destiny, what was it? It was just the idea that American settlers were destined to expand westward and take over all the Westlands and every land they could see and touch. Okay, that was just a manifestation of an idea. From someo…