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I heard somewhere about how many Americans just know the concept of other countries in a kind of abstract way. They don't see them as real or fully realized, with their own autonomy, history, ideology and way of life. Only America is real. I'm starting to believe this is the case
I've certainly gotten that vibe from Americans from time to time, like America is the only country they ever think about, but also they just sort of assume that everyone else is also thinking about America as much as they do.
I mean
totally valid. having had working/learning experiences and making friends outside the US/West feels very uncommon here and led to me personally seeking out others with external perspectives (however they acquired them), because it feels isolating to have or cultivate an international, humanist perspective here on Planet America.
IMO you can really see this on full display with the Iran war. As a culture, we really can't seem to understand that we're being beaten. No adversary, and certainly not some [$Muslim_Slur] is conceptualized as being able to actual fight us off. The national conception of the entire MENA region is "goatherders with AK 47s and sandals". The idea that Iran is a large, ancient, well-educated, ideologically motivated, industrially advanced civilization with no desire to assimilate into the American way of life is as inconceivable to the American body politic as plate tectonics would be to an Iron Age peasant.
what no theory of mind does to a mf
Oh yeah that is true
100% true coming from an american my fellow americans are really uncritical and lack self awareness in the most basic sense
Westerners don't even think non-western people are real. They can't picture Chinese or Russian people being real human beings, they think they're all just brainwashed empty husks. My aunt once argued a photo of a Chinese woman was fake because she was smiling and "Chinese people don't do that."
Oh yeah, it's the case.
Because they think america is the most advanced culture and that other countries want to attain the american way both knowing and unknowingly. This is also why they got so mad at that asian american snow boarder that represented china in the winter olympics, they saw it as betrayal.
You are describing U.S. conservatives. The normal people here are just normal. We are infested with conservatives, unfortunately.
This is 10000% true
Source: am yank
Most Americans don't even leave their hometowns much and live in insular community bubbles, let alone visit another country in their life.
My view is it’s because of the history of US immigration. Other countries exist, but only as genus, a historical detail about where people come from, but not as a living part of present reality. Modern day Germany or the Byzantine Empire, it’s all the same, just a dead fact in a textbook.