Three quarters of Germans consider the United States to be an unreliable partner, according to a survey published on Thursday.
78% of those queried currently consider France to be a trustworthy partner and 74% consider the UK to be a trustworthy partner.
According to the survey, 40% consider Ukraine to be a trustworthy partner, while 48% of respondents believe that Germany cannot trust Ukraine.
There’s been a long period of propaganda through tv shows and movies portraying the USA as an utopia of freedom and morality.
That carefully crafted image has been very powerful in all European countries, making the American bigger brother and protector a very ingrained idea. This benefited American trade to no end, many American brands were commonly known and wanted.
I remember traveling to the USA and wanting to taste all the things we couldn’t get in Europe, like mountain dew or taco bell. Only after trying Reese’s chocolate did I understand that marketing and quality are not the same.
But this empire that was built in wake of the Marshall plan had been slowly crumbling, and as of the last year actively lobotomized.
I don’t know if you can sell the same products to China or Russia
Russia and china are doing the same propaganda now though and have been for years.
Not as effective, culturally speaking.
I know little or nothing about Chinese or Russian popular culture, yet I was spoon fed us culture through cartoons and movies.