"I've thought about this question as well." Xu Yang said, "The shifts in the global economic landscape and corporate power structures are incredibly fast, but cultural terrains evolve much more slowly. Even if a corporation conquers a piece of land, it can't violently alter or steal the culture on that land. That's why even the most powerful corporations often have no voice at all when it comes to cultural products."
"Just like New Taixi State, which has no culture to speak of." Menon shook his head, "Concepts like freedom, equality, and the spirit of commercial contracts were inherited from the Old Taixi Continent. The only traditions New Taixi State has are the extermination of wild buffalo and indigenous peoples. They haven't exported any anime or movies, and the Lighthouse Core remains stagnant and isolated—sooner or later, it'll be forgotten."
"Yeah..." Xu Yang also considered this perspective.
