People in imperial-core countries spend tens of thousands of dollars and 20+ years on their education, with degrees from the highest institutions, all to come out with this understanding of world politics.
I've heard those some people be shocked at how openly racist and obviously wrong random 19th century intellectuals were. These people who will say how horrible all the pro-slavery arguments and white man's burden stuff was back then will then turn around and give cleaned up versions of the exact same arguments.
If you study all your life in Hydraulic Engineering, you still won't be a dentist
Yeah, but I'm also talking about harvard and columbia graduates with degrees in political science, who after decades have less political awareness than this Chinese middle-schooler.
STEM folks having low comphrehension of the world around them is very near the bottom of the west's problems. A much bigger issue is most people specialising in history, philosophy, economics, international relations etc. not having a clue about their field. One can spend decades studying this or that monetary theory, but without reading the foremost critics of the system of economics, or even realising this system isn't a natural thing given to us by a metaphor-god, it's absolutely worthless. Studying history without a proper understanding of materialism is like building a brick wall, making massive holes and then filling them with foam.
Worst of all in my opinion is that westerners can't differentiate between theory, conjecture and speculation, regardless of education. Something's only true or false based on one's preconceived notions.
Invisible Cuba
Everyone in the Caribbean:
means cuba is the freest
Man Israel fucking up so badly they don't get to be on "The Same Map" anymore
Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines get to be on the blue side for once
Also Chile!
Chile representing! But why?
Because it was 50 years from the Allende coup recently
