Nationality matters less than economics - the Internet generation is going to behave more like customers than citizens. Japan good, America bad. America good, Japan bad, the opposite of the old lesson. This is the official history, anyway, but there is another, simpler interpretation, one that doesn't require belief in a pair of opposite lessons in subsequent decades. The reason that this simpler interpretation is not the official history is that a global market is terrifying to people, or at least to people who make cars for a living.
Patriotism is the last refuge of an unprofitable business.
We are so used to seeing markets through the filter of national borders that its hard to see what the emerging global market is going to look like, but the behavior of the Internet generation in Europe will show us its outlines. Add to this that they are comfortable with the internet, that they can work anywhere they like, and that places like easyEverything are springing up to satisfy untapped demand for communications, and you get a generation of rootless cosmopolitans, people who are unimpressed with arguments that they should tolerate unemployment, or high prices, or limited horizons, simply in order to defend national characteristics that boil down to little more than a preference for different kinds of cheese. National culture' is just another way of saying 'arbitrage opportunity'. The internet has created the biggest referendum on the ability of government to satisfy its citizens in the history of the world, and governments that fail the test will see their citizens vote with their feet. This period has only just begun, and it will have a long time to go before the post-national generation is in power, but you can start to see what the world will look like in a 25 years while standing in line at Victoria station.