White middle-class Americans, as a rule, love pretending to be underdogs. We love the idea of re-fighting the Revolutionary War, reduced from a global superpower to a scrappy band of rebels. In our politics, it can manifest in nasty ways — nothing's more dangerous than a powerful group with a persecution complex — but in fiction, it's what gives us classics like Red Dawn and any number of alien invasion stories.
No matter how much we may identify with the conquered, though, we can't seem to imagine actually living as them. And apparently, that's true even when the conquerors are the full force of World War II's Axis powers, the setting is one where America never became a superpower in the first place, and the story is Amazon and...
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