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Originally Posted by milkman
I do think it's a flawed experiment, since people are going to try to think outside the box, so to speak.
I mean, think about it.
The U.S isn't mentioned until post 34.
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Yeah, it's feasible that obscure countries were getting more play, but at the same time most of the biggies were indeed hit too. In my list of reasons to think of a country top of mind, we could add a sixth one in this exercise, which is "obscurity". But Indonesia apparently doesn't rise to the top for that measure, either. It's like the country is invisible.
1) projecting power on the world stage (e.g., Russia, the USA, UK).
2) tourism (France, Italy, Maldives)
3) having problems (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria)
4) maybe being part of the Anglo-American club (e.g., Australia, Canada) or being "western"/white (e.g., Hungary, Sweden)
5) maybe being industrialized (e.g., Japan, Taiwan)