Star-spangled blowup? Divided United States commemorates 250th anniversary

Star-spangled blowup? Divided United States commemorates 250th anniversary To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Issued on: The world’s longest-running democracy is celebrating its 250th anniversary. Quite the milestone for a United States that to many Europeans still seems like a new world. Since 1789, it’s been governed under the same constitution, a timespan where here in France, we’ve had five republics, three monarchies and three dictatorships if you include Nazi occupation. So what is the significance of this Fourth of July? Is it about 1776 and the birth of a nation, remembrance of two and-a-half centuries of events that shaped a common present, the celebration of the world’s premier superpower, the one that won the Cold War, dominated trade and finance, and gave the world so much music, movies and great literature? At a time when the current president’s all for loosening traditional alliances, where global admiration for democracy in America is plummeting, why does the US seem to have changed so suddenly and so much? Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.