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Indeed. Building wells or installing basic solar panels in remote villages builds goodwill and gets youngsters to see parts of the world they might not.
But perhaps that second point, and its corresponding appreciation for the services we have in the US which are things the rich want to obliterate.
My experience traveling has been the opposite—I’ve been noticing how the perception of modernity in America functions as a control and fear inducing mechanism to keep people from seriously questioning capitalism.
I have spent a lot of time in Mexico, and I personally believe they have their priorities better aligned to give people an existence with some level of dignity. It may not look like American suburbia, but you can take up a cottage industry easily if you are poor, get healthcare more easily if you are sick, and socialization is affordable. Where America nickel and dimes every necessary expense to live, Mexico does a better job of keeping those costs down and taxing luxuries instead.
I’m not saying Mexico is perfect—no country is—but the “shithole country” rhetoric that Trump espouses contributes to an impression that our way is indisputably the best way, and that is simply not true.
The idea that most other countries are either extremely strange or extremely poverty-stricken is definitely a very intentional form of propaganda we get fed in the US. People are shocked when I tell them they can get cheaper, safer, better medical care in Mexico pretty often. Mostly for cosmetic surgeries, but they act like all hospitals in Mexico are run down death factories.