Rectifying Global Imbalances

The fact that life is unfair is made most clear by observing different places in the world. In China, some of the world's most hard-working, responsible, ethical people are being taken for granted and brutally mistreated by an invasive, mendacious, totalitarian government. In America, one of the world's most benign, unobtrusive and ethical governments is being hated and attacked by people who do not want to pay taxes, hate science and education, despise art and creativity, think that it's right to poison the planet and put their children $10 trillion in debt, and want an end of the world before the children being born now have learned how to read. The Chinese could only dream of having a government like America's; Americans already have it and treat it like dirt. Similarly, the American government can only dream of having constituents like the Chinese; the Chinese government already has them and treats them like cattle.

We see the exact same thing in case of men and women in, respectively, American liberal culture and Middle East. A man who has lived through political correctness can only dream of having a woman like ones in Middle East; the Middle Eastern men already have them and subject them to some of the most monstrous abuses directed against anyone on the planet. Similarly, a woman from Middle East can only dream of having a man like one in American liberal culture; American misandrists already have them and treat them like trash. Just as in case of Chinese and American governments and populations, the worse group in each pair takes for granted and abuses the better group in each pair. Each offending group thinks that their way is rightful or fair. Cross-cultural analysis shows that neither is the case.

One way to make things more fair, that has worked well in recent decades, has been global capitalism. When American business, which is the best in the world, got together with Chinese workers, who are likewise the best in the world, the result has been a billion people raised out of poverty; cheaper products creating a worldwide consumption boom; and profits for business resulting in Dow Jones rising from 1,000 points to 10,000. The Chinese had top-notch workers and grossly inadequate management; the Americans had top-notch business and hateful, overly demanding workers. Put the best of the two together, and the result has been a spectacular global boom.

Similarly the gross cross-cultural imbalances in gender relations can be rectified by people in the better group in each culture getting together with one another. A man from a matriarchal culture and a woman from a patriarchal culture, when coming together, will treat one another far better than they could possibly expect to be treated at home. Not only will they be able to create a much better relationship for themselves, but if done on a large enough scale they will create an incentive on the offending gender in their home societies to treat the other gender better - an incentive whose substance will be summed up as follows: "If you don't stop mistreating us, we will leave."

Needless to say, it is not as feasible to combine American government with Chinese people as it is for American business to hire Chinese workers, or as it is for a million American liberal men to marry a million foreign women. However it is feasible for American political culture to influence the Chinese government to see the wrongness of its more oppressive and violent policies and give the Chinese, both ones inside the government and outside the government, some understanding of what a good government is. Likewise it may be feasible for Chinese people coming into America to show American people the extent to which their anti-government stance is ridiculous. That is especially true for those in America who cry "communism" or "totalitarianism" about American government. The Chinese, having actually lived under communism and totalitarianism, would straighten these people out as to what communism and totaliatarianism actually are and what they aren't, and just how far the American government in general - and the Obama government in particular - is from either of these things.

Similarly the women from Middle Eastern, or African, or Latin, or Eastern European, or Australian, background will be in great position to straighten out their American counterparts as to what abuse and misogyny is and what it isn't. In the same way, the American men who've had to deal with the likes of Andrea Dworkin will be able to straighten out their Australian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Russian counterparts as to what a "b*tch", a "feminazi," a "puta," a "sharmotta" or a "suka" actually is and what she is not. In the cases of these cultures, the problem is not with women; it is with the men and their failure to appreciate what they have in their home countries. The problem of failing to appreciate what one has is best solved by showing what life is like without it and how life is with something that actually fits one's claims. 

In all the cases above, the matters need to be brought into perspective - both for the better groups and for the worse ones. The better ones will benefit from it the most by realizing their value; the worse ones will be made to appreciate what they have. The process will incentivize and reward better practices and shame, ridicule and disincentivize the worse ones. And that will create better outcomes all around the world, and a better world as an outcome.