It’s tempting to talk about “the West” or “the East” as if they were single, unified blocks — one voice, one agenda, one mindset.It’s tempting to talk about “the West” or “the East” as if they were single, unified blocks — one voice, one agenda, one mindset. But this kind of reductionism flattens reality. The United States, for example, is not one policy or worldview; it’s a landscape of competing voices — from grassroots activists to corporate lobbies, from academic thinkers to local communities.The United States, for example, is not one policy or worldview; it’s a landscape of competing voices — from grassroots activists to corporate lobbies, from academic thinkers to local communities.

When we say “the U.S. always does this” or “the East always thinks that,” we stop asking the harder questions: Which voices? Which groups? Which institutions? In a world already flooded with oversimplified narratives, maybe the most radical act is refusing to treat whole societies as monoliths.In a world already flooded with oversimplified narratives, maybe the most radical act is refusing to treat whole societies as monoliths.

Do you think media (and even experts) rely too much on “monolithic” labels when analyzing global politics? What’s lost when we accept those shortcuts?
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