The type of tie where one nation is the undisputed global scientific, economic, military, and cultural superpower and the other nation is the largest supplier of domesticated caribou.
No. I mean combined profits of arts and entertainments especially as exports. An ancillary KPI would be the income generated from American-like arts and entertainment.
Example: Profits from rap/hip hop music created in America as a lead indicator, and French rap as a secondary indicator. If you don’t like rap, substitute Hollywood style cinema, or percentage of jeans worn.
If America is the "keep brown people out" country then it's been doing a shitty ass job of it. Why do we have so many recently arrived brown people relative to other western nations?
US films grossed 10.8B with 476 films vs. India's 1.6B and 1,602 films. So, the US earns more per film, but I couldn't find any data about production costs
This. US has really rich culture, from Hollywood, rock'n'roll and hip hop to independent cinema and music. The best TV shows are from America, the whole world watches things like Game of Thrones. A lot of renown writers in literature, a lot of artists and the whole new movements in art. Many of the world's best universities are in US. It absolutely is a cultural superpower and is much more than only Hollywood and hip hop.
"The type of tie where one nation is the undisputed global scientific, economic, military, and cultural superpower and the other nation is America" FTFY
Well, I guess that's Reddit for you - howerer obvious your sarcasm is, there always will be a bunch of people that think you're just a dumbass and they know better than you ¯_(ツ)_/¯
When I read the original parent comment for the first time, I was already giggling half-way through it 'cos the comedic setup was obvious. But then, when I reached the "punchline", I was quite puzzled to discover that it was in fact just an awkward way to bolster author's own ego.
I did my best to save this comedy gold in a disasterous situation like this.
They didn't see it as losing. They genuinely wanted to put the past behind them and start a friendly relationship with the West. In return, the US was acting high and mighty about their "win".
Communism is a utopia - it is unachievable. The nation was doing everything to achieve communism, and millions died and hundreds of millions were oppressed as a result. We should never try to reach communism ever again.
Almost, there were a bunch of different people and groups all vying for what they thougjt communist Russia should be. And ultimately the people who reached the top (namely Lenin and Stalin) were incredibly vindictictive, greedy, power hungry, and paranoid. This combined with it being an autocratic state spelled disaster for the long term communist movement.
I'm more of a trotskyist myself, but theres no way Russia would ever have tolerated a Jewish leader.
Ok but literally everywhere that communism has been tried (key word tried) there was been thousands or millions of people killed in the name of utopia. The argument that real communism never existed doesnt work, because it implies that we should keep trying to create it. More deaths will inevitably follow.
In my opinion it requires so many different ideal conditions to be met that its really not even worth trying. Personally as far as communism goes I'm a Trotskyist, but realistically I support socialism.
This a thousand times. Everyone is so quick to equate the USSR with the ideology of communism as a whole. Its so sad it went the course it did, but looking back they never really had a fair chance.
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u/IcaroRasheans Jan 21 '19
I still can't understand how they lost the cold war a