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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17741)	7/7/2001 1:38:55 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) of 82486

it is adherence to the most minimal internationally recognized norms of human rights. Recognized by whom? By the west. Not by China. Not by Africa. Not by non-westernized Asia or Middle East. What you consider internationally recognized means recognized by those countries which adhere to the concept of rights which was developed in Europe and imposed on certain other countries by the Western colonial movement. Find me an authentic African, Egyptian, or Asian voice not influenced by Western liberal thought which agrees with your position. Not that I disagree with you. After all, I was brought up in this Western culture, too, and have adopted it as the best culture. But I am also fair minded enough to recognize it for what it is--my culture that I believe in enough to think other people should all adopt it. But I don't have the audacity to pretend that it is the natural culture of all people, either. Or that it is "internationally" recognized other than by Western countries, or Westernized countries, or countries which feel a need to kowtow to the Western line because we have the wealth and the atomic weapons to impose it.

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