I don't think anyone outside anglo countries watch those
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Outside of white countries, you can strike out "white women".
Also I wonder how these results will change, given current 'trends' in the US and western countries...
plawolf
Lieutenant General
So it’s true that India worships the Anglos so much they would copy anything and everything, including double digit inflation, price hikes, and potential shortages and rationing. Jai Hind!
Xi Jingping Thoughts - the book, needs to be fearured in the next installment of Crazy Rich Asians. I better see Henry Golding reading that book.
An Indian commentator points out that Sunak's family actually came from what is today Pakistan. Sadiq Khan who is the current Mayor of London's family also originated in modern-day Pakistan and he is regarded as British Pakistani. By the same logic, Rishi Sunak is also British Pakistani.
So actually the Pakistani Empire now rules the colony of England?
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People arguing over video games as soft power but never mentioning Dynasty Warriors series. SMH y'all have no taste.
I believe that China is doing well in terms of soft power, where I live, CCTV signed a great cooperation agreement with a large national TV here, one of the 4 largest in my country, where a lot of Chinese content is shown, one of these content was "Xi Jinping's Classical Literary Quotes" as well as many other content from China.
What still keeps the Hollywood movie industry going are the blockbusters that still give huge audience to the American movie industry, but that is changing, Hollywood now doesn't have the same dominance it used to, even when Bruce Lee was alive, alone he was a strong competitor against all Hollywood, today they face the film industry of China, India, Nigeria, not to mention other films from other countries that are successful worldwide as the case of Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Turkey , Thailand among others.
At the same time that other film industries are raised to compete with Hollywood, the cultural power of American cinema is diminished, I see this happening, for example, in the past I saw many Bruce Lee films, then we had a hegemony of Hollywood, mainly after the fall of the Soviet Union, we now have several other Kung Fu films, the case of the Ip Man sequel is one of the most recent successful films here, China is using the soft power issue very well through martial arts, opening doors to other content.
Furthermore, at the same time China is culturally confronting the power of Hollywood by recreating its film industry, China is inserted within Hollywood by buying or cooperating with several American film studios, you have no idea how beneficial this is for the China, much of the American cultural power came through films about wars and militarism, who inserted this was Reagan even before his presidency and especially during his presidency, this put in the minds of Americans the national existential danger that the Soviet Union represented, the greatest successes are precisely the films of the 80s, this certainly had the necessary impact to create within the USA a public engagement of the American people against the danger posed by the Soviet Union, China within Hollywood prevents this from happening, there is still a huge gap between the film industry wanting to put China in this scenario as they always did with Russia putting -a as the villain, something that has not changed since the fall of the Soviet Union, Americans' negative sentiment towards the Chinese is increasing, but not because of the content of the American film industry, but of the American media and politicians.
What still keeps the Hollywood movie industry going are the blockbusters that still give huge audience to the American movie industry, but that is changing, Hollywood now doesn't have the same dominance it used to, even when Bruce Lee was alive, alone he was a strong competitor against all Hollywood, today they face the film industry of China, India, Nigeria, not to mention other films from other countries that are successful worldwide as the case of Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Turkey , Thailand among others.
At the same time that other film industries are raised to compete with Hollywood, the cultural power of American cinema is diminished, I see this happening, for example, in the past I saw many Bruce Lee films, then we had a hegemony of Hollywood, mainly after the fall of the Soviet Union, we now have several other Kung Fu films, the case of the Ip Man sequel is one of the most recent successful films here, China is using the soft power issue very well through martial arts, opening doors to other content.
Furthermore, at the same time China is culturally confronting the power of Hollywood by recreating its film industry, China is inserted within Hollywood by buying or cooperating with several American film studios, you have no idea how beneficial this is for the China, much of the American cultural power came through films about wars and militarism, who inserted this was Reagan even before his presidency and especially during his presidency, this put in the minds of Americans the national existential danger that the Soviet Union represented, the greatest successes are precisely the films of the 80s, this certainly had the necessary impact to create within the USA a public engagement of the American people against the danger posed by the Soviet Union, China within Hollywood prevents this from happening, there is still a huge gap between the film industry wanting to put China in this scenario as they always did with Russia putting -a as the villain, something that has not changed since the fall of the Soviet Union, Americans' negative sentiment towards the Chinese is increasing, but not because of the content of the American film industry, but of the American media and politicians.
I was offline for three days, and came back to see people still debating about China's soft power in the breaking news thread. Some things in this forum never changes.
In4ser
Junior Member
It's not just European soft power but all over the West. Even in the US that art and entertainment are being rotted away. That's a big part of the reason why Asian media popularity (i.e. Anime & K-Dramas) is on the rise.
Look at the movies in the past few years compared to 10-15 years ago. Disney and Amazon have become unimaginative trash with their big hits in Marvel or LOTR being bland cash grabs using existing IPs. It's now all content meant for consumption where they can harvest data and views not the promotion of beauty, meaning, or even pleasure. It's just mind-numbing crap many of which are based on low-cost crowdsourcing (i.e. reality tv or youtube creators) and/or algorithmic productions that have little critical or thought-provoking value. It's all a cookie-cutter formula or using remakes, reboots, or spinoffs to get a quick buck and move on to the next distraction of the bread and circus to keep people zombified enough to keep subscribing.
The excessive focus on cultural power over other aspects of society and its products still being trash is a sign that people are falling into decadence from civilization. I'm not worried about Western "soft power" in the long run being used against China but more as means to control its own people to keep them docile and numb with propaganda like SJW and being the superheroes saving the world.
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