...and he brought up a really good point. He was saying how America rules the world, and me and this other guy were like "yeah, we know", but the African guy said, "No, I mean really.... think about it."
He went on to describe how if you want your country to have a military, you're basically not getting arms without American consent. And if you do happen to get arms without our consent, most likely they were built by our rivals, who built them to use against American arms in the first place. And you're not going to have anybody run the military unless they've got some modelling after the 'best' military in the world, the US.
He went further than that. America has all the schools, and if you want to do something to help your country, you've got to go to school. Where do you go? America... we'll even kick in some nice scholarships to make it easier for you to go to school here. Why? Because once you go back to bumfuck, Africa, you may be African and working for the African government of whatever country you're in, but you're doing it as an American student, passing American ideologies and American thought onto others. If you want to succeed in international politics, basically you've either gone to a college in the US, UK or France.
But once he described how American colleges are really taking over, it was just amazing. Like, I knew we had a power over the world, but to hear him describe it really, basically, just put me in a sense of awe over the kind of people that thought this kind of shit up. What amazing planning... even when China supercedes our market, where are these people going to go to study money? China, with a pisspoor human rights record, or the UK/US/France? Of course they'll go with a Western country. So even Chinese economics is going to be based on an Anglo-American model.
The whole scheme of it all really just caught me off guard. It's such a work of art that I just couldn't fathom it. Like, no wonder so many countries frickin' hate us... it's not just our culture drowning them out, but if they want to do anything to help themselves, they basically have to become American in one form or another. Pretty incredible, isn't it?
He went on to describe how if you want your country to have a military, you're basically not getting arms without American consent. And if you do happen to get arms without our consent, most likely they were built by our rivals, who built them to use against American arms in the first place. And you're not going to have anybody run the military unless they've got some modelling after the 'best' military in the world, the US.
He went further than that. America has all the schools, and if you want to do something to help your country, you've got to go to school. Where do you go? America... we'll even kick in some nice scholarships to make it easier for you to go to school here. Why? Because once you go back to bumfuck, Africa, you may be African and working for the African government of whatever country you're in, but you're doing it as an American student, passing American ideologies and American thought onto others. If you want to succeed in international politics, basically you've either gone to a college in the US, UK or France.
But once he described how American colleges are really taking over, it was just amazing. Like, I knew we had a power over the world, but to hear him describe it really, basically, just put me in a sense of awe over the kind of people that thought this kind of shit up. What amazing planning... even when China supercedes our market, where are these people going to go to study money? China, with a pisspoor human rights record, or the UK/US/France? Of course they'll go with a Western country. So even Chinese economics is going to be based on an Anglo-American model.
The whole scheme of it all really just caught me off guard. It's such a work of art that I just couldn't fathom it. Like, no wonder so many countries frickin' hate us... it's not just our culture drowning them out, but if they want to do anything to help themselves, they basically have to become American in one form or another. Pretty incredible, isn't it?
