The fuck is this shit, how are countries like Finland Portugal above countries like South Korea and China...

The fuck is this shit, how are countries like Finland Portugal above countries like South Korea and China? I know Soft Power is a weak nu male meme but what the fuck how are we supposed to take those rankings seriously?

t. Chink

The one on the left is objectively correct, the two others are objectively incorrect.

Tfw if Arabs went such Niggers your cunt would be on the list

>Denmark
>Austria
>Finland
'''''powers'''''

>softugal

>Soft Power is a weak nu male meme
this has exited since before numale and tumblr and altright and Sup Forums and shit

>Finland Portugal above countries like South Korea and China?

china has literally zero soft power. technically, zero "modern" soft power.
sk is merely an internet meme and your question shows who you are. try going outside of weeb sites or the internet. you dont see any korean shit except for some of their food and plastic surgery articles/narratives on tabloids. this situation is practically the same even in japan.

however, you are also right here, this doesnt have an objective measure as to what/how soft power is so those researchers have almost randomly roughly ranked it. you can also tell there are alot of questionable ranks such as what are french and german "modern" soft power are and where the market is, today nobody buys into british music anymore etc.

what the hell is soft power?

>today nobody buys into british music anymore etc.

Of course they do, in terms of popular music anyway. Some of the biggest selling musical artists are British, and the British music industry continues to grow and report record profits.

>soft power

It's another made up western concept, with a methodology completely disconnected from reality.

no. im a former hardcore britaboo and still have followed your music scenes even though ive been consistently in indie/underground/experimental scenes. hence i know well about it. the decline of british music is nothing really new.

A nation's ability to get other countries to listen to them without military or economic threats and coercion.

It's why China isn't higher like OP wants them to be. They have a lot of hard power but people only respect them because of money and manpower.

It doesn't matter what you think, the fact remains that British music is still listened to around the world. It might be mostly pleb shite like One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith but this is what soft power is all about.

>5 of the global top 10 albums were by British artists
>1 in 6 albums sold were by British artists - 17% of global share

>the decline of british music is nothing really new.
The success of UK artists in the US during the early 2010s led to some claiming a new British Invasion was taking place, as British musicians took their largest ever share of the US album charts year-on-year between 2011 (11.7% of US market), 2012 (13.7% of US market), 2013 and 2014.[22]

Adele's album '21' became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st Century and its 4th best-selling album of all time in 2011, certified platinum 16 times. During the same year, the Grammy-award winning album Back To Black by British singer Amy Winehouse became the UK's second best selling album of the 21st Century and its 13th best-selling album of all time following her death in 2011, certified platinum 11 times.

Also in 2014, One Direction's album 'Four' reached number 1 in the UK, became the top charted album on iTunes in 67 countries and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US. As a consequence, One Direction became the first band to reach number one on the US Billboard chart with each of their first four albums, British or otherwise.

Of course there's more to the music scene than just record sales. You have music festivals and live shows which attract a lot of tourists to the country, contributing to the economy. The process of making music contributes too with studios and composers.

The Jap guy is just bullshitting honestly, especially for someone claiming to be a "former hardcore britaboo". This whole thread is cancer tbqh

zitto

>soft power
I'm hard all the time tho

Kill yourself John-san

>A nation's ability to get other countries to listen to them without military or economic threats and coercion.

>Until the 1970s, most Western countries recognized the ROC while the communist bloc and third world countries generally recognized the PRC. This gradually shifted and today only 21 states recognize the ROC while the PRC is recognized by the United Nations and the majority (174) of sovereign states around the world and Palestine.

>tfw you're in the top ten of SOFT CUNTS

Exactly, as China grew in military power and economic influence people started listening to them. Soft power is the ability to get that without 1 billion + population and the 2nd largest economy.

Two words: Meme industry.