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== Real Life ==
* [[Older Than They Think|The earliest example]] would be the [
* The United States of America is often considered as this by scholars.
* Very much [[Truth in Television]]; third-world countries that were part of European colonial empires qualified as well.
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* Some of the most effective Empires start as this according to some historical theories. And even while empires they often have what might be called a "penumbra", a sort of sphere of influence in which their culture is either admired or just accepted because everyone else seems to.
** The predilection among many countries to have imitations of Greco-Roman culture such as "democracy", "senates", and so forth is an example of this.
* Related to this is a fairly popular idea in international relations, [
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