When I was a schoolboy in the 60's and 70's, I was taught that America was never wrong, that we were the ideal, and that all other countries around the world could do no better than to strive to emulate the United States.
3rd World countries like Bangladesh or Cuba or Venezuela or any of a number of other African or Latin American countries were 'corrupt' and therefore bad. 'Corrupt' was never quite defined, I always took it to mean that there were no laws, that you couldn't trust the police and that elected officials were not trustworthy.
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