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• FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s called soft power. Basically an investment in presenting the best part of your culture to others hoping that it will attract people to your ideals and idea of society to ease collaboration with othe peoples.

  But you do understand the reasoning behind an investment with your superior intellect, I’m sure.

  And I’m also sure that you do understand that where an investment is missing others will provide that investment. Promoting their culture in lieu of others.

  I’m putting /s explicitly because I’m not sure you’d get my sarcasm, I don’t think you could understand these subtle reasonings

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And how, pray tell, does funding a Musical in Ireland accomplish that?

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    • FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Developing relationships through common cultural references. You can mainlu use culture as a media to expand your influence in places where you already have a hold of the situation… In other places where you still have have to build your influence, and maybe an infrastructure, you invest in building roads and airports. Which is what China is doing with the "Road and Belt initiative ". If you think freezing foreign aid programs will Help America sustain it’s image around the world you don’t understand how foreign policy works. Exactly like Donald Trump and his cronies.

      Amazing how you can’t have a thought deeper than the shallowest of puddles, have you ever thought about being observed by medical professionals?

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