So. China and Russia are gaining in a political sense in swaying countries from the United States. However, the U.S. is winning the culture war I'd like to think. Do you people think if the American government funded a new branch of government promoting literacy in other country's for that country's people's native language while at the same time spending funds to print American books for them to read in mass quantities it would be beneficial to the world community? I'd imagine an influx of books to South America printed in Espaniol made in America would be a start other then the bible. They've got enough of that, look at the baseball players, we've influenced them enough to point to the sky for their god for that one book. I'd imagine that if Americans aren't reading as many books now a days due to video games and TV and stuff, we should be printing all kinds of books to export to other rapidly growing more literate countries of the world. It would be fair and beneficial to the human race and if any government people read this I'd like you to think about the idea. At the very least Mexico would have much less trouble. People who read books don't hurt anyone while they are reading a book and they also branch out to more knowledge by becoming interested and knowledgeable by what they've read. The only way to good government is through knowledge and not ignoring certain things. Mexico's the example. There are plenty of American stories of drug dealing in our culture, spread throughout that gives knowledge about the world that shouldn't be ignored that we didn't have 10 years ago. Having interacted with immigrants at school and people over the internet, it strikes me that America doesn't see the rest of the world, who don't have books, computers, televisions, radios and find who find these things definite points of interest in their lives. Even old printing machines, with some repair and new typeface, could be be put to work to use to spread the knowledge of mankind. It would be relatively cheap for how effective I imagine it would be, it would put people to work, we have the technology, and it would be hard for politicians to shout down furthering human knowledge. It's so much more profitable to be at peace and learn then be at war. Just look at Japan, Germany, and Poland.
EDIT: I apologize about any grammar errors, I'm pretty tired and was trying to get my basic idea down. I'll go through it later.
EDIT2: Also keep in mind that literacy rates worldwide continue to go up, thank god!
EDIT3: Knowledge is understanding and understanding is compassion.