I really enjoy Chinese culture and I find the Chinese people for the most part absolutely astounding, sadly our governments play us against one another. If all political nonsense and greed were to be set aside, which countries do you think would be best friends, or even allied together, based on their people alone?

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know, I’ve met a decent amount of Canadians over the years, never got any bad vibes from us. I think the problem is America has more than our fair share of assholes, so they approach us a little skeptically, but if you show you’re not an asshole, I think they like us just fine.

        Of course, my biases should be disclosed. Most of the Canadians I’ve met have been from roughly the Toronto area, plus a good handful of French Canadians.

        Couple of the officers at the border when I went to Montreal were kind of dicks, but I think that’s more of a universal feature of border crossing and customs officials around the world. Once I was there though no one gave me any shit.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    Poland and Hungary have historically been very close allies since the middle ages, lots of shared culture, history, they’ve faced similar struggles over the years, and generally they’ve always held each other in pretty high regard. They each even have a little poem about how much they like each other

    Them polish version translates to something like

    Pole and Hungarian brothers be,
    good for fight and good for party.
    Both are valiant, both are lively,
    Upon them may God’s blessings be.

    The Hungarian Version

    Pole and Hungarian — two good friends,
    fighting, and drinking at the end.

    Unfortunately there’s been a lot of tension between them in recent years over the war in Ukraine, and their relationship has been deteriorating.

  • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    Countries are countries, not people, and cannot really be friends. Countries, today, are all nation-states and therefore inextricable from the global caoitalist system, so to be free of politics would be to end every country. In this context, countries can be allies, usually due to shared interests to meet strategic goals.

    Inversely, countries are enemies due to their inherent political nature, the global unstable system of exploitation. To imagine an end to inter-country hostility is to imagine the end of capitalism and nation-states themselves. Under such events the people who live in what is now Chile could love those in Saudi Arabia as much as those in Tanzania.