The Anglosphere is basically defined by the dominance of English, it’s the language of the market it’s the language of the government it’s the language of the Academy it’s the language of the media and religion. its dominance means you struggle to learn from elsewhere 2/3
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across the globe, you can see a similar effect with the covid. every major centralized empire has had a enormous problems, across the ideological spectrum. not saying that there are no exceptions, but US, UK, China, Russia, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Iran. Colonialists! 3/3pic.twitter.com/U0QQhhPLW5
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addenda, some of the countries with the best response are those countries *resisting* the colonial powers. Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea (South and North), Madagascar, Iceland. Even when, due to air transit centrality, some of these had early outbreaks, they did extremely well. Learn!
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