The 51st State
How It's Used
"In the country of Juan Peron, the populist president who once tied the name of the U.S. ambassador to a pig and sent it squealing down the street, the government's recent proposal to consider scrapping the Argentine peso in favor of the U.S. dollar strikes some people here as grounds for revolution -- or at least a good laugh.
"'Forget it; I don't want to live in the 51st state!' quipped taxi driver Mauro Alvarez, 47, Argentina's blue-and-white flag fixed to his rearview mirror." —Anthony Faiola, "A Currency Affair; Argentina Eyes Adopting the U.S. Dollar," The Washington Post, February 3, 1999, p. A11. "In many ways, metropolitan San Juan is a bilingual version of mainland suburbia: shopping malls with Sears and Kmart, Burger King and Citibank.
"Yet the city also treasures its 500-year-old Spanish heritage and its cultural and architectural traditions, which anti-statehood islanders fear they would lose if Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state." —Raul A. Barreneche,"Puerto Rican Architects Head Home to Greener Pastures," The New York Times, April 20, 2000. "And, although I saw a handful of good shows in New York theatre, I also came away convinced that our slavish submission to everything American is unwarranted. We are in danger, given the current artistic deluge, of becoming the 51st state. It's high time our cultural arbiters woke up to the fact that there is a world elsewhere." —Michael Billington, "Overrated, overhyped and over here - American plays are taking over the West End, US shows are hogging our TV screens and Hollywood still dominates our cinemas. Enough is enough," The Guardian (UK), May 30, 2002. "Canada avoided recession in 2001 because its trade-dependent economy benefited more from global growth and relied less on technology investments than the U.S. economy, says economist Andrew Tilton of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
"A falling dollar and rising worldwide commodity prices boosted Canada's economy from 2000 to 2002, he wrote in a research note titled 'The 51st State? Hardly!'” —Sangeetha Ramaswamy,"Trade seen helping Canada avoid recession; Tech-tied U.S. faces tougher adjustment to post-bubble world, economist says," The Globe and Mail, August 31, 2004. "A senior Japanese lawmaker said Japan could become just another Chinese province in the future given Beijing's increasing military capabilities, local media said on Tuesday, prompting strong reaction from Beijing. The comments by Shoichi Nakagawa, policy chief of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), could hurt the improving ties between the Asian neighbours after Abe's fence-mending trip to Beijing last October...
"Abe, whose support ratings have been declining partly due to gaffes by his ministers, brushed off concerns about Nakagawa's comments, saying it was meaningless to debate part of a speech. 'In the past, it was often said that Japan might become the 51st state of the United States,' he told reporters." —Takeshi Yoshiike, "Japan MP says Japan could become Chinese province," Reuters, February 26, 2007. Links Related on eAlmanac
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