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Originally Posted by regular.joe
My observation is that Americans, as a group, are hugely culturally biased about who and what the rest of the world is.
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On top of that, we don't as a people understand or know about our cultural bias.
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On top of that, we wade into the rest of the word with our bias and expect everyone to march to the tune of our drum, because we don't even know about our bias we can't understand and are genuinely baffled as to why no one is marching to the beat of our drum.
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As the man said when the waiter asked where the spoon was, Ah Ha!
Agree 100%, we followed the example of previous empires in bullying weaker nations into submission. Lots of bluff and bluster then if that fails, send the Marines. When United Fruit said the natives are revolting, an incredulous Congress said, they certainly are.
Before communications shrunk the world, and definitely before the internet, we could often convince the second and third world everyone else obeyed us. No more