Well, let's review: the Germans were suffering from the Draconian provisions of the Versailles ending to WWI. The workers were suffering most per usual, yet the level of cultural education (?) of the populace was IIRC among the highest of any country.

Desperation about $/DM, and the finding of a scapegoat for that: International Jewry, was all A. Hitler needed to begin his coalescence, transformation of a society into a heartless machine. Atavistic rituals and banners helped this along - a lot, demonstrating our nearness to the mouth of that primordial cave. Once again.

Japanese? - more feudal than Germany in the '30s, for a gross oversimplification. Huge language barrier: pictograms with diverse meanings; utterly alien to the Romance languages. Ate raw fish even (!) and.. valued silence, simple gardens with One rock + a pebble. Unfathomable to hip Western desire for noise + lots of stuff around, all the time.

Italy - 3rd part of The Axis Powers. Well, they Did have opera, Ettore Bugatti, DaVinci *and* the Pope - and a culture as old as anyone's. Latin-based language - grokkable even by Murican monolingues.

(US? We were morosely amidst the depression, with the CPAs in charge - insisting on balancing the books, no matter who died under the weight of their religio-economic parables. Never heard of 'innovation' - after all that instant-greed sunk everyone on Black Tuesday in '29)

Post-war: it appears that after the toxins were purged, the endorphins returned to normal brain chemistry - there was no problem "understanding each other", despite different languages. Even in Japan, the ideas of women having a life too + the nice ring to the idea of 'self-government' -- seem to have taken, via the inculcation by Our Military-God Doug MacArthur, who surely atoned for his massive vanity, in a bravura performance such that the Japanese still Love him.. mostly. (Right after Demmings, who showed them how to out-do the Murican PHB in intelligence - Still!!)

Now as to the 4th World today - those as poor as the 3rd economically AND characterized by antediluvian ideas of God'sWill which posits the Male as local god / the female as a piece of shit, with merely occasional recreational value... and the Judeo-Christian form of Martial Arts as Really a Bad Idea [thanks, Peter]

WOULD 'generosity' from The Great Satan\ufffd be seen as mere pandering to the weak-willed, agitprop towards the surrendering of that Certainty that Allah is On [Only] Our Side?




Dunno but.. seen one Fundamentalist: you've seen them all.
Ayatollahs - they're everywhere.