The Curse of Superpowers
WikiLeaks above all shows the difficulty the US has in understanding other cultures and societies. The cables show an entire corporate mindset at work on world populations who must surely be, in their psychological make up, just like Americans. How do you tell a world superpower that the world's other 4.5 billion do not think the American, Chinese, or [Russian] way? That societies and cultures are as complex, subtle, and various as the millions of people who compose them. How do you prevent superpowers who, in trying to understand the rest of the world, take it to be their own reflections in a mirror coming back at them?
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/11/160-world-understanding
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