Supporters of ideology also criticize. The hegemon brings to the world the idea: free trade and parliament of Britain, freedom and democracy of America, but China brings nothing, it has no soft power, no one wants to copy it, which means it cannot be the hegemon. A very common point of view, you must have read it. what does that mean The fact that the writer is an adult, but has not been to China and does not know the current youth culture - is not aware that Asia is setting the tone now. Here I would remember how America looked at the beginning of the last century through the eyes of a European. A country without culture and without history, with skyscrapers and narrow-minded nouveau riche. Spengler, author of the book The Decline of Europe, called it a civilization without a soul. No American idea that we would like to adopt is seen in Europe. And what? Forty years later, the American way of life was the ideology of the hemisphere, and it included a car, a refrigerator, a house in the suburbs and a movie about everything. The ideology of the hegemon is a description of his way of life, made retrospectively and in beautiful expressions. Free trade in Britain meant the right to sell Manchester cloth in Bengal duty-free, and as soon as German cloth became cheaper, the British under Chamberlain forgot about free trade. American freedom is the freedom to get in your car and drive wherever you want on the highway the government built with oil taxes. The British, as I wrote in the first part, will not export a parliament to foreign countries; They founded it themselves, in imitation of the rich and successful. The Chinese idea already exists, it just hasn't been named yet. It is about order and discipline, mega cities, developed infrastructure and digital control. And there are no lectures on democratic choice and minority rights. In Third World countries, China promotes the idea of ​​a community of shared destiny, where China is one of the few ancient civilizations that has withstood the destructive onslaught of Western civilization. I wrote about it a little higher in the post about the Shanghai Museum.

Supporters of ideology also criticize. The hegemon brings to the world the idea: free trade and parliament of Britain, freedom and democracy of America, but China brings nothing, it has no soft power, no one wants to copy it, which means it cannot be the hegemon. A very common point of view, you must have read it. what does that mean The fact that the writer is an adult, but has not been to China and does not know the current youth culture - is not aware that Asia is setting the tone now. Here I would remember how America looked at the beginning of the last century through the eyes of a European. A country without culture and without history, with skyscrapers and narrow-minded nouveau riche. Spengler, author of the book The Decline of Europe, called it a civilization without a soul. No American idea that we would like to adopt is seen in Europe. And what? Forty years later, the American way of life was the ideology of the hemisphere, and it included a car, a refrigerator, a house in the suburbs and a movie about everything. The ideology of the hegemon is a description of his way of life, made retrospectively and in beautiful expressions. Free trade in Britain meant the right to sell Manchester cloth in Bengal duty-free, and as soon as German cloth became cheaper, the British under Chamberlain forgot about free trade. American freedom is the freedom to get in your car and drive wherever you want on the highway the government built with oil taxes. The British, as I wrote in the first part, will not export a parliament to foreign countries; They founded it themselves, in imitation of the rich and successful. The Chinese idea already exists, it just hasn't been named yet. It is about order and discipline, mega cities, developed infrastructure and digital control. And there are no lectures on democratic choice and minority rights. In Third World countries, China promotes the idea of ​​a community of shared destiny, where China is one of the few ancient civilizations that has withstood the destructive onslaught of Western civilization. I wrote about it a little higher in the post about the Shanghai Museum.