Is the American century over? Your questions answered

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  This week, as the United States celebrates 250 years since its founding,

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  we here at The Global Story have been marking the moment too, with a very special series exploring the surprising

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  and often hidden ways that the United States has shaped the modern world.

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  Is the world a better place for having the United States in it?

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  Interesting question.

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  I think I have to have enough pride in my country to say yes.

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  I feel like the American dream is alive but not well.

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  I believe that future historians will look back at this very time and conclude

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  that it was the beginning of the end of American empire.

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  The changes happening in China's economy represent a real threat to the United States' geopolitical hegemony.

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  I was in Kenya and I had to choose between the two.

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  I would choose America.

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  I don't know why.

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