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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (158897)	3/9/2005 2:27:01 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (1) of 281500

but you DID guffaw at them in Japan? I don't guffaw at all, Nadine. All countries are different and have a different social history. Japan had a zero history of democracy, but an incredibly high level of civil and social virtues, so the installation of a democracy could work as well as the installation of any other political system. The chinese philosopher Dschuang-Tsi explained such a mechanism very well 2500 years ago. I can understand that many Americans regress all the time to the post-WWII patterns (to construct moral "superiority" and self esteem in times of imperial ambitions), but the two examples (Germany, Japan) are just two examples and have not much to offer for prognostics in completely different countries and societies. I believe in democratisation (in fact, I'm from a country where democracy is many century old rooted and goes a lot further than in all other countries) and I think there will be progress, but I don't believe in "democratical export" by aggressive colonial wars (CheneyInc) or imperial terror (NegroponteCo).

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