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Just using a loose example, North Korea.
They live in a state of complete ignorance (in a good way?) they're isolated from the outside world. Yes, they live in a giga-authoritarian state, we know and some of them know that. But, they have a stronger sense of "monoculture" in a way that everybody else has forgotten. They have their movies, songs, epics, festivals and so on. Yes, it's all propaganda, it's corny, but exists, some people cope with the grey market. Their architeture, homes and such were all built by them and for them.
Now, Chubby Kimmy censors all media because HE KNOWS that if his people see how far behind they are in comparison to the outside world, there will be disillusionment, depression, loss of sense of belonging, and thus they will start to defect (emigrate) due to them losing faith in their own country and system, Juche.
With that example, what this has to do with developing countries?
You see, there's many countries around the world that are absurdly poor. Some are poor to the point of there being mass genocide and slavery, others are poor because you have to work 2 years to buy an used 5 year old car. There's always a scale.
The thing is, imagine you, a young person in a developing country, and you're BOMBARDED with foreign media and internet from a very young age. You end up disassociating with your own country and people, and thus, end up leaving or not even trying to build a life in your country, your life goal is leaving. They become foreigners in their own countries, they end up forgetting their own vocabulary to the point of using Google Translate to translate THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. They know nothing about their own government, people, food, history and such, but they know all amendments and who's the current governor of Idaho for example.
In the days of the Cold War, in those same countries, access to communication was scarce. They thought having 8 hours of electricity, never having seen a TV, being semiliterate, eating rice porridge and child labor was completely normal. They had no access to foreign media so they had nothing to compare their own living standards with.
Now... with that being said, what if every single country in the world did the same? It's impossible at this point since Globalism won, but, what if I (and many others) for example, lived in total ignorance? I would've never learned English, sure, but I would be happier since I would not know how life in the outside world looks like. Still, for the weebs, it would suck because there wouldn't be any anime, but at least it would incentivize local animators in your own country to create local alternatives since you can't watch import Japanese animation anymore. Same for videogames, you have to learn how to code now. Same for movies, you have to learn how to make better movies now since there's no more Hollywood and so on.
TLDR - What if it was better for everybody regardless of country if they just didn't know any better? Has global mass communications poisoned everybody's sense of belonging, pride and contentment?
They live in a state of complete ignorance (in a good way?) they're isolated from the outside world. Yes, they live in a giga-authoritarian state, we know and some of them know that. But, they have a stronger sense of "monoculture" in a way that everybody else has forgotten. They have their movies, songs, epics, festivals and so on. Yes, it's all propaganda, it's corny, but exists, some people cope with the grey market. Their architeture, homes and such were all built by them and for them.
Now, Chubby Kimmy censors all media because HE KNOWS that if his people see how far behind they are in comparison to the outside world, there will be disillusionment, depression, loss of sense of belonging, and thus they will start to defect (emigrate) due to them losing faith in their own country and system, Juche.
With that example, what this has to do with developing countries?
You see, there's many countries around the world that are absurdly poor. Some are poor to the point of there being mass genocide and slavery, others are poor because you have to work 2 years to buy an used 5 year old car. There's always a scale.
The thing is, imagine you, a young person in a developing country, and you're BOMBARDED with foreign media and internet from a very young age. You end up disassociating with your own country and people, and thus, end up leaving or not even trying to build a life in your country, your life goal is leaving. They become foreigners in their own countries, they end up forgetting their own vocabulary to the point of using Google Translate to translate THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. They know nothing about their own government, people, food, history and such, but they know all amendments and who's the current governor of Idaho for example.
In the days of the Cold War, in those same countries, access to communication was scarce. They thought having 8 hours of electricity, never having seen a TV, being semiliterate, eating rice porridge and child labor was completely normal. They had no access to foreign media so they had nothing to compare their own living standards with.
Now... with that being said, what if every single country in the world did the same? It's impossible at this point since Globalism won, but, what if I (and many others) for example, lived in total ignorance? I would've never learned English, sure, but I would be happier since I would not know how life in the outside world looks like. Still, for the weebs, it would suck because there wouldn't be any anime, but at least it would incentivize local animators in your own country to create local alternatives since you can't watch import Japanese animation anymore. Same for videogames, you have to learn how to code now. Same for movies, you have to learn how to make better movies now since there's no more Hollywood and so on.
TLDR - What if it was better for everybody regardless of country if they just didn't know any better? Has global mass communications poisoned everybody's sense of belonging, pride and contentment?
