Congrats to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia for making the cut
That's also the list of countries that have better internet than Australia.
Last I remember, the Baltic states have better internet than most of Europe and the US.
Yo, german bro here. When I go by train from my village Willich to fucking Düsseldorf I lose connection 2 times, going 10 kilometers into the state capital.
My friend in Wesel can't reliably call his clients by car cause it's just a connectivity minefield around there.
Send help
Germany is so far behind with wifi coverage, it's insane. Fiber is also rare outside of the hotspots. I volunteered in a refugee center once and an ongoing joke among them was how war-torn Syria had better internet connection than Germany lol
Used to have. Now it's just better than the US and UK lol
Oh no, still better than Germany. Worlds better.
Almost like news written in english tends to focus on english-speaking countries and their allies
The obvious context of this meme is articles that express the "consensus opinion of the international community" on some foreign issue. Like "international community condemns antisemetic criticism of Israel." Or "international community condemns Niger coup, calls for original government to be reinstated so France can keep buying cheap Uranium from the second poorest country on the planet."
let's tune into Radio Saudi Arabia and find the real thuth! /s
why should I pretend like I give a shit about the third world when American media tells me everything I want to hear /s
South Korea is pretty good about pumping out culturally relevant stuff too. Honestly I'd say they do it better than Japan these days (not that I'm personally interested in stuff like k-pop, but it's clearly huge)
Korea is certainly ascendant but I doubt they've passed Japan in cultural exports. At least in the US, there is anime and Sushi in basically every population center these days, whereas Korean BBQ and chicken are still mostly popular in large urban areas (where sushi is still way more popular).
Basically democracies. It is kind of difficult to consider non-democratic dictators like Putin or Kim Jong-un as representatives of some kind of “community”.
You know the vast majority of south and central americas are democracies too, right?
Also a not-insignificant amount of Asia, Africa, and Pacific islands.
Never realized South Korea, Taiwan, or other SEA countries are not democracies but dictatorships.
South Korea at least should probably be included in this map. It generally does include capitalist democracies, but it's not sufficient and probably not necessary for the general criteria.
Latin America and India doesn't count because they are full of brown people, right?
Idk, I feel like Al Jazeera gets quite a bit of visibility and has a good amount of credibility, but Qatar isn't on this map.
I like to call this "The Commonwealth and Friends"
!mapsWithNZ
All Kiwis celebrating rn!
New Zealand is happy to be included
Is this post done in relation to some news story that just occurred?
Or is this just a generic First World versus Third World post?
It's the ladder, then they missed a few First World countries on that map.
I think its pretty close to a map of countries that don't recognise Palestine, or who continue to benefit from colonialism or globalisation.
I guess I should be less surprised how this meme is sailing over people's heads in here
"US liberals would be far right anywhere else in the world!"
The world:
They absolutely would not be far right in Japan and a few more on this map, but they would be right to far right in a lot of countries not on the map too.
You never hear about China or Russia?
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