FYI, when analyzing protests in the third world to understand which socio-economic interests the participants represent, the first thing you should look at is shoes. Sartorial cues are a huge give away even more so than the physiognomy check and shoes are the biggest tell because
they generally represent the single largest expense item. Do the shoes fit the general trend of their age cohort for that particular nation? Are they too clean and new? Are they Western brands? How do they compare to the footwear seen on the daily street traffic? One of the
biggest mistakes that Westerners make is viewing the socio-economic class balance of other societies as identical to their own and the trappings of middle class life so familiar to themselves as actually "middle class". The results of this myopia is that often absolute 1% socio-
economic elites, a foreign society's capitalist compradors and Western bourgeois mimics which are totally unrepresentative of the values and identities of the society as a whole are treated as either numerically dominant or popular. This is an error which goes deliberately
unaddressed by Western media partially because they are too stupid to notice this but mostly because the class interests of these 1% is generally sympathetic towards the American liberal mis-order in which they are beneficiaries.
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