Our World: Using a High School Analogy?

Question

The US: the football players in school. The most powerful group but also very belligerant and bullies others to get their way.

Britian: The popular girls in school. Powerful in their own right but also from hanging with the football players.

Other European Powers and Russia: the student body and various clubs in the school.

India and China: the nerds and geeks.

Iran and North Korea: the goth and punks.

So what do you think? Or how would you reclassify thevarious groups?

(Note, I apologize for calling the British girls but the popular girls in school are a very powerful group and even the British movie "Love Actually" admitted that the British follow the US around.)

Answer 1

There are many analogy that you can use for the world today. But using high school as you did comes from a very ethnocentric point of view, which might be what you were after. Most people would not see the US as the most powerful group in the world. After all, we haven't won a war since WWII.

As for the other countries, there are too many facets and points of view to be able to portray them in a simple analogy. But again, from an ethnocentric view, your analogy works.

Personally, my favorite analogy of world events is this: The US is very much like ancient Athens when it had the Delian League. It has friends, but they're only there by force. Eventually this led to the downfall of Athens. I hope we'll learn our lesson before we have a Peloponnesian War (or WWIII as it would be) of our own.