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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
It is in our national interest for as many other societies as possible to see the world our way and share our values, because they will then be more congenial and sympathetic to us and more cooperative with us. Therefore it is in our interest to impose our values upon others to the extent possible. Causing other groups to adopt our group values clearly strengthens and protects our group (and the individuals in it), regardless of whether or not those values have any objective value (moral or otherwise) or whether or not there is any risk of "foreign" values being adopted by us. Frankly, I think it works in much the same way that the US's economic power is enhanced and protected by the wide adoption of the dollar for global economic purposes, effectively making it a nearly "universal" currency.
In this sense, the exporting of American Idol to the world, and the increasing homoginization of world culture, can be seen as a great act of moral good. Yea us.
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So the most powerful country gets to impose its ideas of morality on everyone else. So the morality that is eventually accpeted by the world is the morality that is derived from the most powerful country, not necessarily the morality that is the most correct.
