It went deep into the negatives for a bit. Often, at least with me, people mistake my efforts at sincere analysis as some kind of advocacy.

I'm an American. I've never been to China or seen one of these Chinese electric cars in person but everything suggests they're on their way to a formidable auto industry in the electric and city-car/light use space - the demographic that Honda and Toyota captured in the 70s and 80s.

Of course if you've done any traveling you'd find many countries have a national auto-manufacturer that's deeply popular in country without much penetration outside (take Vinfast or Saipa for instance) and the Chinese auto companies have yet to prove they can stake a foothold outside of their home country at the Kia or Mercedes level but they just started.

BYD just entered Japan under 2 months ago and XPeng entered Europe only about 6 months ago.

Time will tell, but we could be seeing the very early stage of Chinese auto brands becoming household names.

Most of the Teslas sold around the world, not the US, are made in China.

As it looks now (in Europe); the stigma associated with China is very strong and the brands that succeed likely will be western (at least in name) but made in China.

Such as volvo. The "ownership" is kind of a weird thing ... for my interests I think it's where was it mostly designed and tested.

GM is involved with Wuling for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM-Wuling but I think we call this Chinese, right? Transnational industrial capitalism is weird like that.

> succeed likely will be western (at least in name) but made in China

Not if they increase tariffs beyond the measly 10%. Which they should.

Racism against US economic rivals has been the MO for decades on western social media. It's certainly widely known that the US has "embedded operatives" at the biggest tech firms. This is what they do with their time. Censor anyone that doesn't get dogpiled. The dogpiles then serve as a deterrent. I will never forget the racist "covid in russia" threads in /r/worldnews. Weekly renewed threads, old ones deleted, full of people expressing their hopes for a high number of covid deaths in Asia. Some used innuendo, some were quite direct. They were all rewarded with happy points.

History will treat these sites as the he modern equivalent of the hitler youth. For instance the recent US invasion and occupation of parts of Syria seems to be completely missing from peoples memories. Were Americans simply not informed in the first place? We got millions of Syrian refugees into the EU.

The term for this generally is american exceptionalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

Essentially the US pretends like it's the only country. It's softened in the past 20 years with the rise of the internet but the bubble used to be extremely strong when I was younger.

Interesting. I studied propaganda academically (communicology studies) and would have argued it's gotten worse in the last 20 years, due to new technologies. That is not a strong opinion of mine and your post made me think. I'd like to better understand your point. Are you US American? Are you talking about cold-war propaganda as having being worse or the post 911 hysteria?

American here, it has vastly eroded in the past two decades among the younger generations.

Be aware I am leading you on, but would you say that was more due to the spread of alternative ideas on social media (on covid and lockdowns, gender politics, race politics, geopolitics), distrust in the political system (politicians not being true to what they promised during campaign time) or something completely different?

I'd say it's largely due to the coming of age during the Internet era where there is much more visibility into the thoughts and inner workings of our political leaders and public institutions.

Plus some notable milestones:

2001 Patriot Act - very unpatriotic and anti-american

2008 mortgage crisis - huge bailouts for large corps, nothing for regular joes

2016 election of Trump - reality TV president, collapse of "norms"

2020+ covid response - unprepared and poorly handled, contradictions and backpedaling abound

Probably lots more I'm omitting but it's much harder to make the case we're #1 these days without adding caveats and qualifiers.

I'm an American.

There's many metrics for measuring this. Frequency of international travel is up for Americans, even normalized for immigration.

The consumption of foreign media such as anime kpop and bollywood films is up.

Classic white Americans have also become more multilingual and their cuisine choices have diversified.

It's not great but it's up from a baseline of terrible where people would be asked to point to England on a map and then point to, say, Japan or shown some Hangul text and think it's Farsi. They're not quite that awful anymore.

I'm familiar with the PISA study as being an objective measurement for what you're describing. If I remember correctly the US scored somewhere in the middle of the field, just above Croatia (technically a 3rd world country, as when it was part of Yugoslavia it was also part of the Non-aligned movement during the cold war or 3rd world. The phrase was later turned into a derogatory term by some pretty crafty spin doctors).

I remember the US getting constantly humiliated on the study and stopped taking it. I also remember it being a big thing here in the EU. Pretty much all national TV channels were covering their respective scores.

That was some time ago and I do believe you might be right and that things have improved dramatically. However how does one track this now-a-days? I tried the PISA website, but it seems to have been mostly discontinued, as the last published survey seems to be from 2018. So I'm basically looking for a source that compares education objectively by country with recent data.

> Racism against US economic rivals has been the MO for decades on western social media.

Could simple nationalism (or something else) not be the motivator?

Hard to explain why Europeans, for example Volkswagen or BMW, are not treated similarly, then.

How sure are you that they aren't? Don't forget you are describing your/a model.