Which countries are most politically similar to the United States?

[Red Velvet]

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This is how the website describes different countries and I find it quite interesting:

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I think you CAN argue that USA is the most Latin American Anglo country, but it’s still very much an Anglo country yeah. A Mexicanized Canada is kind of perfect description actually, because it feels like this buffer mixed zone in some elements yeah.

Same thing happens within European countries, their closest comparisons are amongst two of themselves, exception being only Spain and Portugal due to their cultural similarities towards LatAm former colonies. And Switzerland and Russia, which are compared to Canada on so e level that I don’t understand.

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Even for places that are between different regions, the comparison they make feels apt, being a mix of those two regions:

Turkey: Azerbaijan, if it was more like Italy

And just for the sake of curiosity…

Israel: Tunisia, if it was more like Germany
Australia: New Zealand, if it was more like South Africa
South Africa: Botswana, if it was more like The Netherlands
Angola: Mozambique, if it was more like Congo
Nigeria: Ghana, if it was more like Niger
Japan: Taiwan, if it was more like the UK
South Korea: Japan, if it was more like North Korea
China: Taiwan, if it was more like North Korea
Taiwan: China, if it was more like Japan
India: Nepal, if it was more like Sri Lanka
Iran: Iraq, if it was more like Tajikistan
Morocco: Algeria, if was more like Turkey

The last section makes intuitive sense to me. Each country is more similar to the first one than the second one.

Israel: Arabic speaking Middle Eastern country that is WEIRD and superficially Westernized
Australia: Commonwealth Southern Hemisphere Euro settler state with South Africa’s climate and topography
Nigeria: coastal, relatively non-fragile West African state that’s also very big and internally diverse
Japan: coastal, Confucianist East Asian country that’s also an island nation
South Korea: coastal, Confucianist, non-Chinese East Asian country that shares a common culture and language with Best Korea
China: demographically and culturally Chinese society under authoritarian, nominally Communist rule
Taiwan: demographically and culturally Chinese society that is maritime, highly developed, and a former Japanese colony
India: continental, majority Hindu, partly Indo-Aryan speaking country that also scores highly on certain human development metrics, also has a Dravidian speaking minority, and is clearly within the tropics?
Iran: coastal, subtropical, oil-rich desert country that speaks an Indo-European language and is relatively mountainous
Morocco: Arabized Muslim North African country that’s further away from the Arabic heartland and more subject to European (post)colonial influence

It’s the case with American and European countries too. Notice that the 1st stronger option is always someone from the same region, with the 2nd is mostly about having elements that you sprinkle onto the 1st to make that country.

We were talking about USA being mostly comparable with other settler Anglo countries (ex: Australia; Canada) but it also has some Latin American elements of inequality or even violence that distinguish it from other Anglo countries too.

That’s why “USA = Canada if it was more like Mexico” a very good description too. It does feel like a transition zone between Canada and Mexico indeed.

Canada is also a more liberal USA, with better quality of life, which makes “Canada = USA if it was more like Sweden” very good comparison too as it has similarities to those Scandinavian countries in its politics, also feeling like something in-between those two countries.

[MABA 2020]

Canada

[Torie]

The UK has a Supreme Court now, but it does not have a written constitution.

[OSR stands with Israel]

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This is how the website describes different countries and I find it quite interesting:

-snip-

I think you CAN argue that USA is the most Latin American Anglo country, but it’s still very much an Anglo country yeah. A Mexicanized Canada is kind of perfect description actually, because it feels like this buffer mixed zone in some elements yeah.

Same thing happens within European countries, their closest comparisons are amongst two of themselves, exception being only Spain and Portugal due to their cultural similarities towards LatAm former colonies. And Switzerland and Russia, which are compared to Canada on so e level that I don’t understand.

-snip-

Even for places that are between different regions, the comparison they make feels apt, being a mix of those two regions:

Turkey: Azerbaijan, if it was more like Italy

And just for the sake of curiosity…

Israel: Tunisia, if it was more like Germany
Australia: New Zealand, if it was more like South Africa
South Africa: Botswana, if it was more like The Netherlands
Angola: Mozambique, if it was more like Congo
Nigeria: Ghana, if it was more like Niger
Japan: Taiwan, if it was more like the UK
South Korea: Japan, if it was more like North Korea
China: Taiwan, if it was more like North Korea
Taiwan: China, if it was more like Japan
India: Nepal, if it was more like Sri Lanka
Iran: Iraq, if it was more like Tajikistan
Morocco: Algeria, if was more like Turkey

The last section makes intuitive sense to me. Each country is more similar to the first one than the second one.

Israel: Arabic speaking Middle Eastern country that is WEIRD and superficially Westernized
Australia: Commonwealth Southern Hemisphere Euro settler state with South Africa’s climate and topography
Nigeria: coastal, relatively non-fragile West African state that’s also very big and internally diverse
Japan: coastal, Confucianist East Asian country that’s also an island nation
South Korea: coastal, Confucianist, non-Chinese East Asian country that shares a common culture and language with Best Korea
China: demographically and culturally Chinese society under authoritarian, nominally Communist rule
Taiwan: demographically and culturally Chinese society that is maritime, highly developed, and a former Japanese colony
India: continental, majority Hindu, partly Indo-Aryan speaking country that also scores highly on certain human development metrics, also has a Dravidian speaking minority, and is clearly within the tropics?
Iran: coastal, subtropical, oil-rich desert country that speaks an Indo-European language and is relatively mountainous
Morocco: Arabized Muslim North African country that’s further away from the Arabic heartland and more subject to European (post)colonial influence

It’s the case with American and European countries too. Notice that the 1st stronger option is always someone from the same region, with the 2nd is mostly about having elements that you sprinkle onto the 1st to make that country.

We were talking about USA being mostly comparable with other settler Anglo countries (ex: Australia; Canada) but it also has some Latin American elements of inequality or even violence that distinguish it from other Anglo countries too.

That’s why “USA = Canada if it was more like Mexico” a very good description too. It does feel like a transition zone between Canada and Mexico indeed.

Canada is also a more liberal USA, with better quality of life, which makes “Canada = USA if it was more like Sweden” very good comparison too as it has similarities to those Scandinavian countries in its politics, also feeling like something in-between those two countries.

Canada does not have better quality of life than the US lol.