Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen

Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by keiferski on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:52PM (#38002712)

There are innumerable instances throughout history of powers politically influencing smaller states but without making any significant impact on their culture.

Again: you're telling me that communism in Romania didn't happen because of the Soviet Union, and that the Soviets implemented a communist political structure but this had zero effect on the culture? There was no communist culture in Romania? Zero? That's what you just claimed.

You do understand that just because Romania shifted away from the USSR a couple decades later doesn't change the fact that the communist party was still in power and only became in power in the first place because of the USSR?

This is a bit like arguing that Japan has no cultural influence from America, even though America conquered the country and replaced its government with a westernized one.

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Re:Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by... by OfSanguineFire on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:06PM (#38002920)

Viewing the Communist regime in Romania as an example of distinctly Russian culture is questionable inasmuch as it initially claimed to be internationalist, its first years involved a cult of personality of a man from Georgia and then local acolytes of that man, and aside from Russian teaching in schools that (as is well known) had extremely limited impact, it operated entirely through the local language where special Communist terminology was overwhelmingly of French or other Western origin, not from the Russian language.

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