Anand criticizes 'great powers' at UN for disrupting global order
Canada's foreign minister took aim at major powers during her UN General Assembly address.
What to know
- Canadian Foreign Minister Anand criticized major powers at the UN for disrupting global order.
- Online commenters debated whether great powers are net contributors to or detractors from global progress.
- Discussion touched on historical responsibility of major powers for colonial-era practices.
The dispute Whether major powers should be credited with historical moral progress like ending slavery, or whether they acted only out of self-interest. · positions read across 8 posts and comments
Great powers drive technological innovation and global progress despite their flaws.
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“Your smartphone was invented in America and built in China. Your spaceship to Mars will be invented in America and built in China.”
djabae · Reddit ↗
Ordinary people, not great powers, are responsible for real progress and innovation.
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“Everyday normal humans are the ones making progress and innovating. Should we thank the great powers for ending slavery?”
Pay-Dough · Reddit ↗
The post-1945 global order is outdated and middle powers need more independence.
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“The global order was made in 1945 but it is not 1945 anymore. We do have to become more independent.”
djabae · Reddit ↗
Anand Canadian Foreign Minister
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“The global order was made in 1945 but it is not 1945 anymore. We do have to become more independent.”
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first by CBC, 1d ago
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The large groups are the ones who define each nation as we know them. You are relying on the existence of minority exceptions but that doesn't disprove that the most influential demographics of a country are the large homogenous groups. No one denies native tribes were in America first. What I deny is that they created the United States as we know…
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The global order was made in 1945 but it is not 1945 anymore. We do have to become more independent. The world is dividing. The rest of Anand's talk is typical left wing fantasy. Western countries are becoming "pluralistic" with multiple cultures, ethnicities, and languages all in the same space. The result isn't a utopia, but countries within…
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Yes, but they were able to unite and act as homogenous group. I guess implicitly I consider them homogenous b/c the results were so positive, and because they literally did unite around constitutions. That unity and success has not repeated itself with the new wave of airplane migrants. Europe and America are turning against the UN for forcing…
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The large groups are the ones who define each nation as we know them. Governments do not define a people No one denies native tribes were in America first. Which ones? There are a lot, with significant genetic divergence from eachother.
- Yesterday
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It was the great power at the time the UK that freed African slaves from their African masters. The UK a few years ago finished paying them.
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Bot raid incoming defending coincidentally at the same time. Everyday normal humans are the ones making progress and innovating. Should we thank the great powers for ending slavery? LMFAO y’all are actually brain dead bots.
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Except all of the innovating and progress making. Your smartphone was invented in America and built in China. Your spaceship to Mars will be invented in America and built in China. It's the middle powers and no powers that do nothing.
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But for what reason did that happen? Definitely not to benefit the great powers themselves right? Suuuurely.