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Hegemony is not a household word in the United States. How would you explain what the term means to your roommate

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Hegemony can be seen as when one thing or group of things(a state or culture for instance) dominates and takes over another thing or group of things. It can be compared to something as a trend that has domineering effect such that it is the popular thing and everybody follows it. Hegemony is used in the political space to denote states that dominate over another state or region, the dominating state called the hegemon

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