• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    15 hours ago

    I don’t think most of the masses in Europe know or give a shit about what happens in the US. Maybe the name of the president, or when the US fucks up some country, like Irak or Afghanistan.

    Now they sort of do, because of the world wide impact of Trump’s psychotic world commerce antics, or Russia and Ukraine, which are close enough, which may impact them directly or close enough.

    I think there is an image of Europe in the US of a place where people are generally cultured, which is not really the case. Hicks are everywhere. Millions in Europe are workers in industry and agriculture or fishing, and care jack shit about what happens outside their sphere.

    Europeans do have a higher awareness of what happens outside their borders mainly because they have been invading each other for millenia, so international relations are culturally important, but that’s about it. Football is way more important than international news for the majority of Europeans. Bread and circuses.

    • madjo@feddit.nl
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      13 hours ago

      The news bulletins are filled with news out of the USA. We are very aware of what’s happening in that country, because of our history with fascism with our neighbour Germany.

      Football is also going to be affected btw, with the Worldcup being held in Canada, Mexico and tourism-very-unfriendly USA