The lesson of this is that humour (and especially irony) don't travel well, even in the Anglosphere.

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Most remained mired in subsistence level agriculture until suddenly advances in the Anglosphere catapulted living standards forward.

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Despite the financial crisis of 2008, which has seriously tarnished the reputation of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, Mr Kotkin predicts that the Anglosphere will remain powerful for some time.

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As he described, the Anglosphere was a persistent force that created a common world culture via land, language, and law (the common law, which originated in Anglo-Saxon culture).

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The Anglosphere is not the only great European cultural block: Mr Ghemawat calculates that by some measures Spain's ties with its old colonies are even closer than Britain's.

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But in the Anglosphere it became mainstream, part of pop-culture.

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It also binds the Anglosphere to the rising Indosphere.

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Yes, there are myths from all countries, and even fantasy literature written in Germany or Spain or elsewhere, but the market has been historically dominated by the Anglosphere, and I think is rooted more in the myths of the Anglosphere specifically than in Christianity more broadly.

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