cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6484299
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/06/23/1-americas-global-image/
America’s image is mostly positive among the Asian nations polled. Particularly large majorities see the U.S. favorably in the Philippines (92%), South Korea (84%) and Vietnam (77%).
It’s from 2015 but more recent polls have found similar data IIRC
79% of people polled in Vietnam chose the US in the “Preferred alignment choice in U.S.-China rivalry” which is a different metric obviously but still points towards the same idea
Edit: According to Luna Oi, Pew Research Center is a neoliberal think tank that cannot be trusted on anything about Vietnam
I’m not sure that’s true; I recall a few African countries that were pretty vocally unhappy with Germany and unhappy about it to the faces of the politicians while they were in the room. A lot of people don’t like Germany for their behavior today. Additionally the fact that nowhere near enough Nazis made love to a noose and instead got government positions after the war is the reason a lot of people wisely keep an eye on them. I still recall when there were a series of murders of Turkish people in Germany everybody and their dog were quick to say it was just Turkish people killing each other, and even the news was mocking the murders by calling them the ‘doner murders’, and people were bizarrely shocked that it turned out to just be your average Germans who were murdering Turkish people, and the police not only had a suspicion it was just Germans but had been harassing the families of the murdered. Unsurprisingly the people who are ‘bigoted’ or ‘racist’ to Germans don’t tend to be racist to non-white people; instead the people who praise Germany tend to not have the best relation to non-white countries.
jesus christ. yet another reason to hate the adolfs
Death to America
You raise some good points, and of course there are few universal truths especially if it descends to the individual. No country is without its haters. Certainly my Uncle, who only visited Germany from a height of 20,000 feet whilst dropping bombs on it, never ever forgave them and was always incredibly rude if we ever met any. He had more reason than most perhaps, as did many during the second world war, and you can’t force someone to forgive. I’m British, and many in the world don’t like us much, and with some reason.
But considering the global hatred against Germany 80 years, I still maintain that most people accept that things are different today, as do the Vietnamese against America, and perhaps against Russia who used them for the proxy war. Perception’s not fixed, of course. Global views towards Russia have shifted dramatically within two short years.
But I chose my racists phrase carefully. If someone hates someone for their country, that is the very definition of racism. “Racism is prejudice or hostility towards a person’s race, colour, language, nationality, or national or ethnic origin.” I don’t think it’s possible to argue against that someone’s racist in that situation.
Notably, things aren’t different, except for Germany going back to committing atrocities outside of Europe.
This is hilarious. The USSR literally helped Vietnam (and many other countries) in their war for liberation against you. By your logic, every struggle against your colonialism is a ‘proxy war’.
Also notably not because westerners care about invasions.
Also, whose views outside of the European genocidal powers changed on the matter?
Against me? I think you’re assuming incorrectly.
Against you, plural. Given that you are trying to whitewash the gang of colonial metropoles that is NATO, you, singular, should be included.
Or do you need to be reminded of your actions in Asia, Africa, and the Americas?
Yep, you’re a loon.
It’s amazing how much people like you just up and deny the last few centuries worth of history of colonialism and slavery. I wonder if you know how states like Pissrael and the US came about, or what ‘Lebensraum’ was, or who owned India in the early 20th century, etc., or if you are just playing dumb?