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To: epicure who wrote (7180)	4/5/2002 4:35:22 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

There is a particular civilization which has resulted in all manner of benefits for mankind, through its political practices, science and technology, medicine, and other things. It happens, historically, to have originated in the West. That fact is beyond hiding, at this point. Everyone knows that modernization means Westernization, to a greater or lesser degree. I do not think it is mean, or devalues the contributions already made, or yet to be made, by other peoples. In another century or two, it will just be Earth Civilization.......