How many truly distinct global consciousnesses exist, as in a planetary-scale ethos of being? I count only 2: American and Japanese. The USSR almost got there but didn’t. Europe, even at peak colonialism, remained continental-parochial. China seems headed that way too.
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It might be because it's an island nation. We either go completely insular, and don't see beyond the shoreline, or we go completely outwards and welcome the world.
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