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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.
all those countries are fairly conservative or have large conservative populations
That could play a part, but same holds true for Poland and Japan.
there are a different type of conservatism. Nigeria has Christian fundamentalist conservatism so they love Trump's anti-gay and anti-abortion government. India is hyper pro-capitalist so they love billionaires owning everything. South America is pro-apartheid and they mostly love Elon Musk.
Japan is conservative in a social sense that doesn't include religion. they don't mesh with trump's America. Poland should love Trump, so not sure what's happening there other than they're concerned about his pro-Russia stance. that said the polish government doesn't seem popular with its people so maybe it is a case of them having a conservative government but not a conservative population.
These first two sound totally more believable than my theory about language, but
Assuming you meant South Africa, you totally lost me here. The major major majority of people in South Africa are black, they are not pro-apartheid. Neither is the biggest political party, which you might know because it was the the party of Nelson Mandela (that dude that fought apartheid his entire life). I don't think there is any country so not fond of Musk as South Africa (aside from a very small percentage that might totally love him). Although it likely isn't totally unrelated that Musk is from SA.
They might have if Trump wasn't so supportive of their previous occupier, the hate against Russia in former Sovjet states runs deep.
Fair enough. yeah my south African one was a guess that there might be a large population of conservative holdouts but I'm afraid I don't know much about the country in recent years.