Umm ... America's tricolor preceded France's, which was also (as was the American one, after all, Yankees had fought "The French & Indian War" wherein they lost ten percent of the population of the Northeast under a tricolour) an homage to the United Kingdom ... which the French thoroughly misunderstand to this day.
The American Constitution precedes almost every European one, too ... and it's uninterrupted form of government, like Britain's, precedes those of every polity on The Continent with the possible exception of The Republic of San Marino and Duchy of Lichtenstein.
Americans needed no permission from France, and in fact seriously harmed their European allies by concluding a separate peace with the Mother Country across The Pond. Just writing as a Canadian here ... our entire identity is about not being American.
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Umm ... America's tricolor preceded France's, which was also (as was the American one, after all, Yankees had fought "The French & Indian War" wherein they lost ten percent of the population of the Northeast under a tricolour) an homage to the United Kingdom ... which the French thoroughly misunderstand to this day.
The American Constitution precedes almost every European one, too ... and it's uninterrupted form of government, like Britain's, precedes those of every polity on The Continent with the possible exception of The Republic of San Marino and Duchy of Lichtenstein.
Americans needed no permission from France, and in fact seriously harmed their European allies by concluding a separate peace with the Mother Country across The Pond. Just writing as a Canadian here ... our entire identity is about not being American.