fifty-first state
Unofficial American territory
A fifty-first state is a territory, country, or region so closely aligned with or dominated by the United States that it might as well be annexed.
The phrase is usually ironic or critical: Canada is practically the fifty-first state, Puerto Rico has long been called the fifty-first state.
It suggests cultural, economic, or political subordination to American interests.
- AmericanizationAdopting US cultural norms
- American influenceU.S. impact abroad
- Puerto RicoAmerican Caribbean territory
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
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fifty-first statesovereign nation
Self-ruled territorial polity
fifty-first staterogue state
Hostile, isolated country
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