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Americans are just not calibrated on how far Asia has advanced. Why? I think it’s partly because there is no mass media depicting modern life in Asia besides perhaps Crazy Rich Asians. Also partly pride.

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Can you share any descriptions or details about the advancements that Americans are missing?

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One of the reasons I've been aiming to watch more Chinese, South Korean, Japanese and Indian movies/shows. Any recommendations?

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it's also because many of the biggest differences are in the basics: public transport, public safety, public education, public healthcare. these things don't make for viral content, except when @vitalik.eth takes the MRT.

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Where in Asia would you say is the best for technological advancement? I live in Japan and YouTube told me this would be a futuristic wonderland. I remember that video everytime I fax my timesheet to the HR department (after printing 3 copies and getting them stamped).

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The region has transformed so much in the past 20 years—I don't think the media/cultural institutions in the US have caught up with this, and hence the lack of informed focus on this part of the world. Many Americans have visited East Asia though, and would have witnessed the transformation for themselves.

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The rapidity of societal change in Asia is something the world has never seen. It creates a fun opportunity where America thinks it is ahead and suddenly learns just how far behind it really is. Sort of like Perry arriving in Japan. America might eventually have a Meiji restoration of its own.

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Had that realization when I went to Indonesia. Singapore is advanced as well but expected. How much farther ahead Indonesia was than expected really surprised me

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innovation in crypto has lived outside the USA ever since the SEC started its fight against crypto. While the rest of the world embraced it with open arms

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100% esp with regard to china. you have the zeihans brainwashing their followers on china doomerism, and i'm not saying china is challenge exempt, far from it but they refuse to see that is a wolf in sheep closing. a sick wolf maybe but still ... a wolf is a wolf

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Inequality makes it easy to ignore development for those who want. Despite all the US TV and movie exports, Europeans have long been able to downplay US prosperity by assuming that it just applies to a few rich people while the masses have to work 3 jobs and don't have health care etc

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Hard disagree about no mass media depicting life in Asia, specifically South Korea. K pop is a global industry, and so are K dramas. In the west, and everywhere nowadays, younger millennials, Gen Z, etc have grown up with this.

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My experience of traveling in the US was that Americans have little to no knowledge of current affairs and culture outside of their own country. It was quite astounding.

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It's because Americans mostly only care about themselves. The lack of knowledge of other countries even back when folks were better educated has always astounded me.

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I only can say China number one !

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How much of China today, infrastructure etc, came from US intellectual property?

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There is a prejudiced mental model that is colonial in origin - just like "not invented here" that pre decides that asia and africa are backwards, arabs are rough and dirty, foreigners are out to get us and so on which all feed the "America is number one" propaganda. This is not, of course, exclusive to the united states but when it shapes US policy it has far reaching consequences. Travel may (but does not always) help open the curtains of the mind but convincing others who are complacent of the need to change is an uphill task.

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I think it's sad

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I think you're right. Many Americans rely on media for their worldview, and there's a huge gap in diverse representations of modern Asia. Crazy Rich Asians was a start, but it's just one slice. It's crucial to broaden the narrative to show Asia's dynamic progress and complexity.

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