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Favorable views of the US have declined globally
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oh Turkey, you goofball! ๐ ๐
Interesting how, aside from Isreal, the rest of the countries that now have a more favourable view of the US (India, Nigeria and South-Africa) have an English speaking population because of colonialism. Maybe the propaganda reached them better? Doesn't hold up for Canada, Australia & New Zealand though.
Kenya is also an ex-British colony with a small minority of L1 English speakers and a substantial presence of L2 English speakers, so I don't know if language can explain it so easily
Couldn't be a single explanation, and quite likely language isn't the main one indeed. Turkey doesn't have many English speakers as well.
But i do think it matters whether a people is able to consume news from the source because of the language they speak. In Europe for example, where in the east there is quite some (L2) Russian speakers opposed to western european countries, that makes it easier for Russia to spread a favourable view.