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Originally Posted by Ed Ferris
I recommend reading this book:
https://archive.org/details/FactfulnessByHansRosling
The late Dr. Rosling proves that, except for a few nations with ongoing wars or dysfunctional governments, the so-called Third World is at the level of material civilization that the US and Western Europe were in the 1950's; India, the 1960's; China, the 1970's. People still talk about the "undeveloped nations" and how badly-off their inhabitants are, but I don't remember the 1950's as being all that terrible here in the US. |
Isn't that the entire reason we do foreign aid?
It is preciously why the us a world power. Because they are at that material level, they buy American goods. We have Americanized the world through this. There is nowhere in the world you can not find American good; coke can, Pepsi bottle, Hollywood movie, music, etc.
More people know about America than they know of a different foreign country other than their own.
Foreign aid isn't only to "nation" build, it is a way to build the American brand, call it a marketing tool
More than any other country, the us can be a cultural melting pot because immigrants are Americanized before coming. Syrian refugees in Europe aren't integrating quickly because they aren't going there knowing parts of the culture beforehand. Don't know each language of the member countries if the EU.
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