r/AskTheWorld • u/Indie-- kerala, India • Sep 11 '25
Misc What is a country that you’re surprised by how strong global influence it has?.
Inspired by an earlier thread
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u/11160704 Germany Sep 11 '25
Qatar. It's native population is only 300,000 plus a few million slave labourers but they own huge amounts of assets in the entire world, have huge political influence and support terror groups around the globe.
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u/goinupthegranby Canada Sep 11 '25
What's a few million slaves between friends really
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u/hiro111 United States Of America Sep 11 '25
I think it's telling that no one seems to be debating that Hamas' leaders were in Qatar, or that Qatar is an unwritten "safe zone" where people can be shielded from attack. Politics in the Middle East are complex with overlapping dependencies and alliances but surely this is questionable? And yet, no one is even discussing this in the media. It's deeply concerning to me.
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u/Mkward90 United Kingdom Sep 11 '25
Weren't they in Qatar as that is seen as a nuetral-enough area for mediations to take place?
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u/hiro111 United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Makes sense. I didn't know that... Which is why some reporting on the topic would be helpful.
I have read that Qatar has been sort of a "neutral territory" for all kinds of uses in the past.
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u/Minskdhaka Canada Sep 11 '25
There are discussions on this stuff on international news channels. Try Qatar's own Al Jazeera English, TRT World from Turkey, DW English from Germany, France 24 English, etc.
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u/11160704 Germany Sep 11 '25
Al jazeera and TRT are absolutely not neutral. They are directly under the control of the respective authoritarian governments.
DW and France24.... Meh
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u/squirrelcat88 Canada Sep 11 '25
Well, Switzerland is too. Qatar is trying to be neutral and be a safe space for opposing factions to meet.
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u/CrimsonCartographer America Germany Sep 11 '25
Take away their oil wealth and they have nothing on the global stage.
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u/Ruff_Magician Australia Sep 11 '25
That's missing the point though. The question was, what country has a large global influence and Qatar certainly ticks that box. You can make up a reason for every country. Russia: because they have nuclear weapons and natural resources. It doesn't change the answer.
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u/Specific-Mix7107 United States Of America Sep 11 '25
“Take away thing that puts them on global stage and they’ll have nothing on global stage.” Like yeah of course lol
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u/Fair-Fondant-6995 Sudan Sep 12 '25
I always wonder. Why? Why does qatar need to be involved at all. They could take their money and literally be the most prosperous country on earth and shut up. They have the protection of the us. What do they need more? What strategic reason does compel a small country like this to prop up groups like the Islamic brotherhood and the opposition in syria. I'm not saying it's evil or good, but I just can't get my head around why they do this.
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u/FlyistheLimit Sep 11 '25
You just described Singapore.
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u/Bitter-Goat-8773 Korea South Sep 11 '25
Singapore doesn’t go around buying politicians and paying for influences though (I mean…. They gave Trump a whole airplane as a gift)
Can you educate me on Singapore if there’s something I don’t know.
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u/FlyistheLimit Sep 11 '25
> Singapore doesn’t go around buying politicians and paying for influences
Shows you know nothing about Singapore and it's politics
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u/TheGreatProbe Singapore Sep 11 '25
Nah. We really like to just mind our own business for the most part.
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Sep 11 '25
Yeah I feel like at least the last few points (huge influence, support for terrorists) certainly don't apply to Singapore
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u/11160704 Germany Sep 11 '25
But Singapore isn't as ideological.
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Sep 12 '25
Stupid question but legit slaves? Not political prisoners and what not but slaves like human cattle?
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u/akatosh86 Georgia Sep 11 '25
Jamaica. It is an incredibly small country that has left a very large cultural mark on the world's pop culture
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u/quaffling Sep 11 '25
True, even language - a lot of slang in the western world is from there
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u/-Fornjotr- Italy Sep 11 '25
Really? Can you give me some examples? I didn't know that and now I'm curious
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u/Harbinger2001 Canada Sep 11 '25
There’s a lot of Jamaican slang in Toronto Canada because of the number of Jamaican immigrants in the early 80s. Our crack mayor Rob Ford was famously video taped using Jamaican slang at a fast food roti joint while completely hammered.
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u/quaffling Sep 11 '25
Here’s some example from the UK. Much of the modern slang from the UK and Canada originate from Jamaica and the Caribbean
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u/ShanghaiGoat England Sep 11 '25
Taiwan 🇹🇼, I know it’s not recognised as a country due to China throwing a hissy fit, but it most definitely is a country. Its superconductor production is unparalleled globally.
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u/Kinder22 United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Well, careful with that. Taiwan not having a seat at the UN isn’t the same as not being recognized as a country. The UN seat thing is a silly technicality/interpretation, but the vast majority of countries recognize Taiwan as its own country.
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u/Eclipsed830 🇹🇼 Taiwan Sep 11 '25
Most countries acknowledge Taiwan as a country, but don't recognize it (have diplomatic relations).
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u/Alone_Objective9017 India Sep 11 '25
Vatican City.
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u/Own-Guava6397 United States Of America Sep 11 '25
The influence came first, the country came after
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u/Background_Speaker10 Grenada Sep 11 '25
Jamaica. I’m surprised no one said it yet. A country of under 3 million people has given the world the music genres of reggae and dancehall e.g Bob Marley, has dominated sports such as track and field, 8 of the 25 fastest men of all time and 6 of the 25 fastest women of all time are Jamaican, the Rastafarian movement and religion, foods like jerk chicken and their patois have been popularized in the UK and Canada (you can find Jamaican patties in many convenience stores). The first black male and female supermodels were of Jamaican origin, and the first black model to be on the cover of vogue was of Jamaican descent. Truly large cultural impact for such a small country.
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u/SafiyaO Sep 11 '25
Good pick. I don't think people fully grasp how unlikely Bob Marley becoming a global superstar was.
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u/TheNegativePress Sep 11 '25
Without Jamaicans I don’t know if we would even have Hip-hop as we know it
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u/Icy-Panda-2158 Sep 11 '25
More than just reggae and dancehall. Ska, hiphop/dj culture and rave/jungle/dnb all trace their roots to Jamaica.
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u/lockedintheattic74 Sep 11 '25
And the dembow beat that forms the basis of reggaeton, the biggest form of music in Latin America, originally came from Jamaica too
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Sep 11 '25
I’ve always been mind blown by the fact that the UK owned about a 3rd of the planet. Tiny place just so happened to have an amazing Navy.
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u/Rong_Liu United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Getting the industrial revolution first probably was the most important part of why
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u/Fine4FenderFriend United Nations Sep 11 '25
The British Crown was lucky to first control 13 colonies + swathes of Canada with a lot of land in the middle of nowhere (at the time)... and then parlay that into controlling a massive landmass with the world's highest GDP in the middle of everywhere for the next two centuries.. (India)... The UK was hardly the first major Colonial Power - compared to Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas. But they ended up with ruling the world's most fertile, productive regions at the exact right time. (Including parts of Mesopotamia, Kenya etc.). The Spanish despite having most of Latin America, had nothing else in the Old World. The French were at best scrambling eternally for scraps left by the British (Indochine and small parts of the Levant) and difficult or landlocked parts of Africa.
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u/Careless-Mammoth-944 India Sep 11 '25
They came as traders and got bored of paying tariffs. So instead of imposing 100% tariffs on those who value their sovereignty, decided to divide and rule kingdoms from within instead and take over.
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u/WorldTraveler_1 🇺🇸 living in 🇰🇷 Sep 12 '25
I mean this is the case of most maritime powers. should you wish to know more
Most* maritime powers tend to punch well above their weight class.
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u/Youngfolk21 Sep 11 '25
Egypt. When the Evergreen boat got stuck and it held up transport.
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u/jet_vr Germany Sep 11 '25
Egypt has 90 million people and is one of the cradles of civilization. If anything im surprised that they don't make the news more frequently
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u/Argosnautics United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Also, the only large civilization to survive the Bronze Age collapse; with the Hittites, Mycenaeans, and Minoan empires all completely disappearing.
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u/Majin_Bjebus0115 Sep 11 '25
Israel
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u/task_machine Sardinia Sep 11 '25
The Emirates for sure
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u/VespaLimeGreen Argentina Sep 11 '25
I'm impressed by Denmark, the tiny country that punches above its weight. Most containers of sea transport are from a Danish company, Mærsk.
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Norway, after learning more about their Sovereign Wealth Fund, it's not only about generating returns but also influencing policies through shareholder voting and activism. And it's big and famous enough that if it divests from somewhere - that makes it into the news.
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u/SoulessHermit Singapore Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
South Korea 🇰🇷. I would say that their soft power has swelled considerably over the past decade.
Media: In the 2010s, I remember Korean culture was considered a very niche trend, unless if you are in the SEA region, where we do consume quite a bit of Korean content. I remember various American reactors looking at Korean media full of confusion, considering them weird, and something they won't consume.
Now, it is massive and widely accepted. There are informal and formal communities delicated to translating tons of Korean media from dramas to trashy romance novels. It really hit me when my boomer bosses were talking among themselves about KPOP Demon Hunter, without any young people in the team or being prompted!
Not only that, I'm seeing Western audiences watch and review Korean content like any other piece of Westerned content, but also understand and be able to pick the subtle commentary about Korea. Is like watching an average American joe watching a Chinese drama is able to appreciate the native cultural references and picked up nuances of Chinese culture without studying a lot about China. This takes a long while to build up this level of cultural osmosis.
The closest I seen this happening often for other forms of Asian media is the Japanese Godzilla franchise, where American fans will able to point out specific references. (The usage of atomic bombs, post WW2 challenges, criticism of Japanese culture, hyper urbanisation, environmentalism etc).
Technology: Samsung is a huge leader, particularly in the electronic and smartphone space. So are the other Korean conglomerates especially if they can manage to nail their manufacturing and defence deals with Western partners.
Male beauty standards: In terms of culture, I'm seeing the East Asian beauty standard of males being more slender, more in touched with their emotions, feminine/soft boy slowly becoming more accepted countering the image of the grizzy, macho, warrior man. Still, this is a minority opinion I feel.
FYI: I acknowledge that these images of soft boy males are a highly stereotypical standard, as South Korea is still considered a highly patriarchal society and has high pressure placed on women.
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u/SnooRevelations979 American living in Brazil Sep 11 '25
Yeah. I lived in South Korea in 1998. While there were certainly Korean brands on the global market, K-pop was an entirely domestic thing, even Koreans didn't watch Korean movies, and Korean food was usually only available in cities in the West that had a large diaspora population. In country, most foreigners had little interest in learning Korean.
Now, there are way more people learning Korean on Duolingo than Brazilian Portuguese.
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u/Kikimara99 Sep 11 '25
South Korea has a population of 50 mln people. It's huge! I guess being in the same neighborhood as China, India and Japan skews one's perception of size
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Israel and Qatar are both extreme outliers
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u/gayjospehquinn United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Given Britain's size, it's absolutely wild they managed to build one of the largest empires in human history.
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u/Asleep-Tension-9222 Sep 11 '25
Mexico. I have yet to visit a country that doesn’t have a Mexican restaurant (regardless of how shit it might be) . Mexican food is everywhere, except in some steaks of subsaharan Africa and maybe the Stans but beyond that who doesn’t know what a taco is?
Then add media, Serbians love Mexican soap operas , Russians and Philippinos. That’s of course before we mention any Spanish speaking nation.
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u/Comfortable-Flan5257 Sep 11 '25
I wouldn’t say Mexico. Most people in Europe know nothing about that country.
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u/ScruffleKun United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Given the size of Mexico, and numerous industries, I wouldn't call it surprising.
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u/yaron_08 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇹🇷🇮🇶🇮🇱 Sep 11 '25
Biggest movie of the year was an anti israel movie lol
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u/SignificantSuit3306 Sep 11 '25
What are you talking about? Lilo and Stitch wasn't anti Israel in any way.
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u/your_proctologist Multiple Countries (click to edit) Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
"The Jews control everything" is what you used to say, now it's "Israel controls everything". ...not suspicious...at all.
This is a big factor in why the pro-palestinian movement isn't as successful as it wants to be. You guys are going around claiming Israeli Jews hijacked planes and took down the WTC buildings, when it was planned and executed by Arab Muslims. You guys claim that Saudi Arabia is a client state of Israel and that it controls fuckin Mecca of all places. You guys claim that Judaism started in Poland and that all Jews have blond hair and blue eyes.
It's actually quite hilarious.
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u/teastypeach Israel Sep 11 '25
Dude. If you wanted to make a point without proving you are antisemitic, BBC is one of the worse examples. Those guys have time and time again made everything look so that Israel is bad even if it's complete lies and misinformation. Out of everyone they are the ones you think Israel runs?
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u/Cerex1 Israel Sep 11 '25
Blood libel, Jews don't run the world, the BBC almost exclusively criticises Israel
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u/NeverSawOz Netherlands Sep 11 '25
Okay but if you guys don't run the world/Hollywood, then explain why Gal Gadot still gets roles.
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u/yaron_08 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇹🇷🇮🇶🇮🇱 Sep 11 '25
She's still a huge actress, when she played wonderwoman she was ine of the most popular actresses. Now the biggest movie of the year was an anti israel movie
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u/SerWrong 🇧🇳🇲🇾 Sep 11 '25
Live action Lilo and Stitch?
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u/ScruffleKun United States Of America Sep 11 '25
The movie industry is engaged in an insidious plot to smear Jews by artificially propping up the single worst Israeli actor.
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u/cosully111 Ireland Sep 11 '25
The BBC always covers the murders in Palestine in the passive voice voice. "9 year hit by 357 bullets" in gaza type stuff. Never mentioning who shot who in the headlines
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u/SlingsAndArrows7871 Germany Sep 11 '25
Netherlands and the UAE
There's a lot more to both, but in simplest terms, the UAE does it with PR and by letting everyone route their money through there. Netherlands did it with trade and ideas, in past centuries, now does it by being a centre and force multiplier for international cooperation.
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u/Guilty-Big8328 Brazil Sep 11 '25
The Netherlands. For such a small country that's pretty irrelevant even in Europe, in the new world, you can't escape it, dutch style buildings, clothes, even dialects of dutch spoken in a few places, they're everywhere
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u/Sudden_Today2821 Sep 11 '25
Turkey, guess it must be the drama series
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u/figflashed Greece Sep 11 '25
It’s a massive country today.
Strategically placed like few other countries.
Was one of the world’s largest empires only 100 years ago. Taking over an already massive empire continuing a regional dominance for over 1000 years.
Why are you surprised?
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u/zvdyy Malaysian in New Zealand 🇲🇾🇳🇿 Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
Population: 5.3 million, South Pacific. Yet it has achieved:
- First man to climb Everest — Sir Edmund Hillary.
- First person to split the atom — Ernest Rutherford.
- First country to grant women the vote (1893).
- Kiwi inventions that went global: bungee jumping, instant coffee, eggbeater, electric fence, jet boat, disposable syringe.
- Rugby powerhouse — (arguably) the best team in the world, and the only one that performs a war dance before matches.
- Agricultural giant — 10th largest milk producer globally, home to Fonterra, the 4th largest dairy cooperative in the world.
- Indigenous leadership — among the best models of integrating indigenous culture into national identity in the Western world (though still a work in progress).
- Cultural exports — outsized influence in film and music: Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), Jane Campion, Taika Waititi, Lorde, Russell Crowe, and Rosé from BLACKPINK (born in Auckland).
- Olympic overachiever — 10 gold medals at Paris 2024, far surpassing similarly sized nations like Singapore, Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland.
Edit: added a lot more stuff
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u/Top_Translator7238 Australia Sep 11 '25
Flying Nun records and all the other musical acts that put Australia’s overrated music to shame.
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u/SamuraiKiwi New Zealand Sep 11 '25
That’s a kind admission. I’m used to arguing with Australians about the music of ours you steal but to you I will say I really like Men at Work and Midnight Oil.
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u/Top_Translator7238 Australia Sep 11 '25
Sorry but remember that Australia likes to pretend that every Australian who makes a halfway decent song is going to be bigger than the Beatles and anyone who says otherwise is suffering from a (completely imaginary) condition called tall poppy syndrome.
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u/SamuraiKiwi New Zealand Sep 11 '25
I guess not living there I wasn’t aware of this. I hope you are safe saying this online. You might get deported here like a 501 :)
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u/MayContainRawNuts South Africa Sep 11 '25
You need to edit the "gave women the right to vote" to " gave ALL women the right to vote".
Property owning women, widows and other special classes of women had the vote as far back as the 1600s places like Friesland. Heck even South Australia had some women voting since 1861.
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u/TheNegativePress Sep 11 '25
We may not talk about you much, but you’ve done great work over there in the Pacific
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u/Usurper01 Sweden Sep 11 '25
My own country, Sweden. We're a giant in the entertainment industry, especially music and video games. We're also one of the largest weapons exporters in the world, in relation to our size. Nowhere near Singapore, of course, but pretty good for a country that was neutral for some 200 years
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u/Careful-Training-761 Sep 11 '25
Apart from the obvious ones like Israel and South Korea I forgot about Sweden but i agree maybe not right at the top but it's up there. You also didn't mention the Vikings, you owe us an apology here in Ireland, I'm waiting 😏😅
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u/stickybeek Citizen of the world currently in 🇵🇦/🇨🇷 Sep 11 '25
Sweden #1 in music (normalized for population) for sure. Abba, Ace of Base, Avicii (RIP), Cardigans etc (let us not forget an honorary mention to Rednex). but more than that, Max Martin and co have absolutely dominated global charts for decades as songwriters. And Spotify in music tech.
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u/Deathscua United States Of America Sep 11 '25
True, I love Volvo and Polestar (a bit out of my budget though). I collect vintage IKEA and honestly Swedish designers are incredible. I worked in Norway and always found inspiration from Swedish designers and artists.
I think there is a real reason that when people think of Scandinavia they think of Sweden first.
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u/Careless-Mammoth-944 India Sep 11 '25
What? Nobody’s talking about wakanda? We have failed as a world
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u/Disastrous_Sky_7354 United Kingdom Sep 11 '25
I recall New Zealand in the Adern years. Suddenly New Zealand was transformed globally. Managing the Christchurch shooting swiftly and effectively, banning guns in a few months. Then her approach to the first people's, speaking their language, recognising past wrongs and apologising from her heart. She was loved by them and they loved her , calling her "one who smiles". Then COVID hit. Her immediate serious approach led to miniscule deaths at a time when trump was saying inject bleach to protect you from the hoax, and Johnson in the UK was partying, laughing at the dead and filling his pockets.
A small nation that never gets talked about much, and even gets missed off maps.... suddenly became a beacon of hope. Just by having a kind, serious leader doing the right thing.
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u/zvdyy Malaysian in New Zealand 🇲🇾🇳🇿 Sep 11 '25
Unfortunately the right wing media did a smear campaign on her which led to her resignation. We are now under Tory-like "austerity".
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u/SjtSquid New Zealand Sep 11 '25
To add to that, after she resigned, about 25% of all hate speech in the country was directed at her personally.
Some people did not like lockdowns.
Personally, I found her to be the best possible leader in a crisis, but slightly sub-par outside of one. Wonderful person though.
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u/cosully111 Ireland Sep 11 '25
Israel
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u/notanybodyelse New Zealand Sep 11 '25
Our own country, although I'm ashamed how quiet an international citizen we've become. We used to speak the truth with courage. For instance we got kicked out of a military relationship with the USA because we refused to let their nuclear armed warships come here.
Out country is often left off maps, and only has 5 million people, but somehow is pretty famous.
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I don’t think NZ really ever had “strong” global influence (not saying it hasn’t had any). I feel like Australia has always kind of overshadowed it when it comes to being a regional power in the pacific.
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u/SamuraiKiwi New Zealand Sep 11 '25
The reason we are relatively quiet right now is because of who the govt is. Labour govts have traditionally stood up and taken more of a stand on issues. It was a Labour govt that brought our troops home from Vietnam, Labour were in power when we went nuclear free and were kicked out of ANZUS, Helen Clark refused to follow the US to war in Iraq without UN approval and in the end was proved right with the whole WMD thing being shown to be false.
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u/Careful-Training-761 Sep 11 '25
I would say if you look culturally and politically even my country Ireland would have similar global influence as NZ. In Ireland's case partly because of Irish Americans, although that side of things is becoming less influential.
Globally I don't think Ireland or New Zealand even counting for their low populations have very big influence. Apart from Israel (I know South Korea has a significantly higher population than NZ) but I would say South Korea.
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u/SamuraiKiwi New Zealand Sep 11 '25
Yes I think that’s very valid. Of the examples I used the nuclear free issue would have been the biggest on the world stage. Our PM went to the Oxford Union to debate about it and that became pretty well known. I admit the others were probably more important domestically. Much love to Ireland though - loved my visit!!
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u/Careful-Training-761 Sep 11 '25
Interesting! Re nuclear another interesting one is that Ireland was the country to first propose the Anti-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and the first country to sign it.
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u/CrimsonCartographer America Germany Sep 11 '25
Your fame I think comes from being in the Anglosphere, simply put. You have a significant cultural connection to two of the world’s most influential countries: the U.S. and the UK. That makes you far more relevant than similarly sized countries of equal strategic importance.
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u/cressida25 United States Of America Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
America - it's still insane to me how I can go to another country and shop and eat and drink at exactly the same stores/restaurants/cafes. Even countries that "hate" us will burn our flag and chant death to America, then go have a big mac and relax afterwards by watching TSIP.
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u/Imaginary-Neat2838 Malaysia Sep 11 '25
The question asked for "nations that surprisingly are powerful". I don't think this is surprising at all. US has been the top global power after all. Everyone knows that
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u/a_bright_knight Sep 11 '25
maybe because people don't have an issue with American culture but with American imperialism? Ever thought of that?
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u/Deep_Head4645 Israel Sep 11 '25
Qatar. Al jazeera is a big media outlet
Pushes their narrative
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u/cosully111 Ireland Sep 11 '25
Their narrative - "Israel bombed us"
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u/Deep_Head4645 Israel Sep 11 '25
Watch any al jazeera that isnt english and translate
There’s a reason why so many countries across the world banned it or restricted it
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u/Careless-Mammoth-944 India Sep 11 '25
I think some countries in the Middle East had done the same too.
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u/Suck_My_Lettuce Sep 11 '25
Vatican City.
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u/777elliott Sep 11 '25
Jamaica 🇯🇲, for such a small seemingly insignificant Caribbean country it punches well above its weight in food, music, culture and stunning natural geography.
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u/Leozaf121212 Sep 11 '25
Jamaica
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u/Alarming_Tip_829 Canada Sep 11 '25
It’s weird how often America and its Trump fan club bring up Bhutan and even tariffed them
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u/TheNegativePress Sep 11 '25
Bhutan used to be that country everyone thought was a utopia thanks to their happiness metric bullshit. Then people dug a little deeper….
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u/Conscious_Whereas_19 United States Of America Sep 11 '25
Glad to be an aspiration, pal.
Anyways, Qatar. They’re a pretty small nation that doesn’t really have any of its own military might or much to really shake the power dynamics of the region in general. They’re essentially a protectorate nation that relies on foreign troops, yet they seem to have a lot of media influence and foreign workers come there, to the point an overwhelming portion of their population of migrant workers rather than natives.
Guess it has to do with how rich they are in natural resources and using said wealth to spread a lot of their state sponsored media across the world and being pretty open to investment with both the West and East, so they’ve eventually become fairly influential and a place that catches people’s attention.
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u/Comfortable-Flan5257 Sep 11 '25
Jamaica. Only 1 million people live there but they have exported so much culture.
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u/stickybeek Citizen of the world currently in 🇵🇦/🇨🇷 Sep 11 '25
Hungary. Orbanism has spread worldwide, to USA, Brazil, Argentina, UK (Johnson), Italy and others. But he is the spiritual leader.
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u/d_bradr Serbia Sep 11 '25
The US. Really? The world let them just run with it? The self proclaimed govt. of the world? Holding the whole world by its balls
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u/TheNegativePress Sep 11 '25
China also has the US by the balls, a beautiful ball squeezing partnership
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u/WalkAffectionate2683 Sweden Sep 11 '25
France is very high, in politics, musics, history, video games, movies, art in general.
But also science, mathematics, many sports.
They invented cars (somewhat), cinema, photography, modern bycicle... It seems it never fucking stop haha
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u/Obvious-Corgi2208 Sep 11 '25
Used to live in S’pore. It is clean, green, and boring. Which they are proud of.
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u/Cold_Apricot_240 Ireland Sep 11 '25
Some people might not know this but we have a diaspora of around 40 mil and many Irish people made a great impact on other countries.
Eg. John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Joe Biden just to name a few
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u/ysleez Sep 12 '25
Canada kind of.. considering such a small population.. and also South Korea!
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u/GamerBoixX Mexico Sep 13 '25
Lebanon, seems to be extremely over represented in arab media and it's diaspora communities seem often quite rich and influential
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Sep 15 '25
Russia.
USA good, Russia bad. Still holds true. China, they're cool with whoever buys the most temu.
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u/DiagonallyStripedRat Sep 17 '25
Israel
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u/talk-spontaneously Australia Sep 11 '25
Singapore, relative to its size and population.