Great article. Reminds me of a book called Civilization: How We All Became American by Regis Debray. This is a problem across the world, and from anecdotal person experience I concur. Everything has been eaten up by Americanization, to varying degrees. I've been everywhere from Vietnam to the Balkans to Kenya and the only place that didn't feel distinctly American almost at all (or at least trying to be American) was China.
Every fucking city of any country has these fucking shits "I <3 CityWithoutAnyEnglishNativeSpeaker", and I hate it.
yes, its similar in Romania too. China kind of broke away from this after the 90s i feel
I feel like this is almost obvious to anyone who travels. Wealthy people travel a lot more than poor people and they travel to the US and Western Europe a lot. Cultural elements are imported back to the periphery and then it sets the standard for trends.
How could the russian people go from fucking world power to have their minds colonized by mcdonalds?
move the suffering into rural communities and outskirts, exploit immigrant labor. Now you get shining cities on a hill and racism :sadness-abysmal:
You know, all the small and medium factories closed after ussr fall, making small towns existence very hard in capitalist hellscape. Villages all got dicked over when collective farming property was privatized/or deliberately fucked over by the government until they wen bankrupt, their means of production sold to some dickhead. There is very obvious hatred of moscow in rural places, they earn shit, work hard, their government services were collapsed deliberately.
Large scale wise most companies centralized their profits in moscow as well, despite operating in like siberia (oil), or north (minerals). So average moscow salary is like 700 bucks, in small town 200, in rural areas maybe 100.
