If you don’t know less than 50% of Americans have a passport. The ones who don’t, I really see the limitation in their thinking. They never saw that most of the world is in fact freer than them, has a better system in place for their people, and doesn’t have some of the major problems that America has. I’m currently in a country where over 90% of items are made in that country. America (made in China) can’t comprehend this efficiency. P.S. I’m American
The thing that gets me though is how dangerous many Americans say other parts of the world is without having ever been there lol. I travel and I’ll tell you America is the MOST dangerous country outside of warzones. Yes even more dangerous that Arab countries for women. Lol I know that propaganda is in a lot of Americans minds.
OK so who’s actually been outside the country and can talk geopolitics and actually know from experience what they are talking about?
During high school I did a summer study program in France and also briefly went to Amsterdam for a weekend.
In college I took a vacation with some college friends in Japan, going to several cities across the country. It’s kind of funny, we’re all weebs, but one of my friends learned Japanese in college and he’s pretty much fluent. He actually speaks better Japanese than Chinese despite being from a family that immigrated over here from China this generation lol.
It was definitely nice seeing the different kind of things they had in those countries as well as a lot of the similarities. That said, I don’t know that I know enough about them to talk intelligently about their modern politics.
I find other countries modern politics to be some alternate version of USA politics unfortunately. There is a steady increase to try and mimic it. This is why countries like Japan are failing, and they are to go extinct soon. I like Japan. But that’s not even the name of the country. They allow the west to dictate their decisions. I was disappointed when i learned they were just a vassal state for USA. But it made sense about their slave work culture and other flaws they are suffering from
Japan’s politics are very different from American politics. While the USA has a two party system with one party who is generally dominant, Japan has had effectively a one party state since World War II. The NDP is so entrenched that factions within the party have greater power than other political parties.
Yeah, you can make the argument that Japan is a vassal state of the USA. However, the demilitarization of Japan was relatively popular amongst Japan’s neighbors.
That’s actually funny. They were FORCED to demilitarized because their new master USA walked into the room and didn’t want their military getting any funny ideas about Japan being used as a big military base for US troops. Which still happens till this day. South Korea is just as bad. They are the main Asian puppets of America
Japan was forced to be demilitarized, but the US could have easily let Japan militarize as a US vassal state under the control of an American alliance, but it didn’t.
In regards to South Korea, it could choose to open negotiations to merge with North Korea. We even saw a conservative South Korean President impeached; the political implication bring a more pro-North Korean president taking power.
That’s in a world where America is defeated. You’re underestimating how evil USA is
Pax Americana has led to the dismantling of empires and the bimodal economic distribution disappearing. It was an improvement over the older world order.