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In China, for instance, almost everything 'Western' had been, until recently, associated with modernity. Being 'against the West' was considered boring, gray and outdated, somehow connected to the 'Communist propaganda' of the past (the fact that the 'Communist propaganda' was often correct, mattered nothing). This attitude allowed the great infiltration of Chinese universities by Western academia, as well as the injection of Western nihilism into Chinese arts, culture, even way of life. Only recently, has this dangerous trend been reversed, but not after it had already caused great damage.
The admiration of everything Western destroyed the greatest progressive experiment of modern history - The Soviet Union and the so-called "Eastern Bloc".
The power of negative Western propaganda packaged together with the promotion of extreme individualism, selfishness and consumerism, literally wiped out all internationalist zeal, humanism and higher principles, from the minds of tens of millions of young Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Bulgarians, and even Soviets.
The once proud Communist Eastern Bloc, after liberating dozens of countries from colonialism, after fighting for an egalitarian world, showing solidarity with all oppressed nations, was then gradually defeated by such shallow bullshit as blue jeans labels, the nonsensical lyrics of rock and pop songs (a favorite weapon of the West), greed, religions (another Western weapon), and slogans like 'freedom' and 'democracy' (the Western world which has been denying freedom and democracy to almost all countries on our planet, cynically turned the truth upside down, and fooled East Europeans, by skillfully applying centuries long propaganda methods).
In the end, confused and increasingly cynical, what many East Europeans demanded was not 'freedom', but more money, more labels, and the ability to join the bloc of the countries that have been plundering the world.
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So, what makes the West so successful, when it comes to brainwashing people all around the world? How is it possible after all that banditry, terror and ruthlessness, that most of the oppressed and conquered countries are still showing plenty of respect to the masters that reside in New York, London or Paris?
I believe that if we find the answers to this question, we will be able to save the world, and reverse this deadly trend.
First of all, after interacting with thousands of people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and Latin America, I am coming to the conclusion that the West (and Japan) is often admired for the 'high standards of living'.
In such miserable and collapsed countries like Indonesia, I often hear nonsense like: "European countries are more 'Muslim' than we are. They treat people much better than we do."
Middle and upper class Southeast Asian families are travelling to Netherlands or Germany, and then exclaim after returning home: "Look at their parks, hospitals, bicycle lanes, trams, museums" We have to learn from them! They do so much for improving our world."
That's precisely what Africans admire about Europe. That's how many 'educated' Indians or Southeast Asians feel. That's what Peruvians, Hondurans or Paraguayans love about their Miami.
Are they wrong? Isn't there, after all, plenty that poor countries could learn from the West?
Yes; definitely they are wrong. Totally wrong!
Let's see 'why'?
The West 'arranged' the entire world in accordance with its own feudal system of the past centuries. It brought the system of shameless oppressive regime to the global level.
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