Besides that, though, it’s a false sense of class divide if you think the median earner at $38,000 per year is living some luxurious life thanks to imperialism. The tragedy is that more Americans who aren’t in the upper echelons of wealth/income don’t recognize that and have solidarity with their fellow exploited workers in the global south.
That’s the thing. You don’t need to believe someone on a $38,000 salary is living luxuriously. Only that person needs to believe it, or at least believe they can reach luxury. Things are bad in the US, but most people chug along because “things could be worse” and they don’t want to jeopardize that security
Has decolonization occurred in countries where the colonized are the minority though?