{"id":154518,"date":"2021-12-18T19:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=154518"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T04:57:50","slug":"soft-power-who-does-it-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/soft-power-who-does-it-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft power: Who does it help?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/strong>: Nations export culture, ideology, and people to create soft power. They export because they have a competitive edge, superior education system, rich culture, superior political system, and military might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: Hard knocks for soft power<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the benefits of Soft power?<\/h5>\n

1. Competitive edge for the \u201cexporter\u201d nation<\/strong>: Since people retain cultural ties and residual loyalties to the land of origin, 2. Create a feedback loop and reinforce hard power<\/strong>: For example, South Korean movies, music, games and dress codes are influencing millennials everywhere.<\/p>\n

About India’s soft power during ancient times<\/h5>\n

India has soft power in Southeast Asia and the Far East. Buddhist missionaries won hearts and minds. Naval conquests established Indophile cultures in Indonesia and Cambodia.<\/p>\n

About the soft power of the UK during Colonial times<\/h5>\n

The soft power of the UK was accumulated during the time when the sun never set on the British Empire. That soft power still has its impacts. For instance, 1. The EU\u2019s business language is English<\/strong> (though the UK is no longer a member), 2. Pop music everywhere has English lyrics, 3. English is America\u2019s official language<\/strong> and is widely spoken in many countries like India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: Why does China consistently beat India on soft power?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Does soft power always benefit exporter nations?<\/h5>\n

No, if the soft power is being exported for the wrong reasons, then the soft power exported can rebound horribly wrong on the exporter. The lessons of Germany, Italy and Japan in the 1930s is a classic example.<\/p>\n

How did the soft power of Germany, Japan and Italy lead to the demise of their own?<\/h5>\n

In the 1930s, Japan started dreaming of a \u201cGreater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere<\/strong>\u201d created by annexing chunks of mainland Asia. Similarly, Germany\u2019s Third Reich started fantasising about a Greater Germany<\/strong> (Gross Deutschland) and the enslavement and extermination of inferior races.<\/p>\n

For achieving that purpose, Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, etc., were herded into extermination camps in Germany. Citizens left Japan in search of greater political stability. The Italians left as Mussolini tried to grab chunks of Africa, and spoke about a New Roman Empire through the \u201cRight of Blood\u201c. This resulted in<\/p>\n

-Emigrant scientists and engineers (including Italians like Enrico Fermi, non-Jewish Germans, and many Jews) invented nuclear weapons and gathered information about the Axis war efforts.<\/p>\n

-General Dwight David Eisenhower, who oversaw the Allied invasion of Europe was born into a German immigrant family.<\/p>\n

-The US Army\u2019s 442nd Infantry Regiment, which won more gallantry awards than any other US formation, was entirely composed of volunteers of Japanese descent.<\/p>\n

The advocates of Gross Deutschland and the Greater East Asia thing mostly ended up dead, after killing millions of their own countrymen. So, Soft power can rebound horribly to the exporter, if exported for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/strong>: India\u2019s soft power is very effective in Afghanistan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSoft power: Who does it help?<\/strong>\u201d <\/strong>published in Business Standard <\/strong>on\u00a018th December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Nations export culture, ideology, and people to create soft power. They export because they have a competitive edge, superior education system, rich culture, superior political system, and military might. Read more: Hard knocks for soft power What are the benefits of Soft power? 1. Competitive edge for the \u201cexporter\u201d nation: Since people retain cultural… Continue reading Soft power: Who does it help?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-154518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}