I never had to read american history before (have to now for an exam of Law for my translating career), and honestly the story of your independence and constitution is fascinating. I love to read where the “values and morals of the american people, land of the free” and all that that you keep talking about in movies and stuff came from.
And reading about the boston tea party and the first and second continental congress and how the struggle came about from excess of taxation over a young nation of merchants i started thinking that i’d read something like that before, in fiction.
just now it hit me. the ROTE world! Bingtown! the struggle against the Satrap (SOUND LIKE A KING?) and Jamaillia (SOUND LIKE AN EMPIRE?) also comes from excess of taxation over a young nation of merchants! i wonder if Robin drew inspiration from american history (probably since y’all must have been made to study this since you were like 2) and if it was always kind of obvious to you US people? Of course the parallels pretty much end there, american soil was not a Cursed Shore (i think?) but it’s still fascinating to discover the influence of real history in fiction.
For us foreigners let me tell you, it’s NOT obvious at all.
