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To: Dayuhan who wrote (108599)	7/28/2003 11:05:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Have you ever wondered how different things might look now if the European colonial powers had acknowledged the obvious and voluntarily relinquished their colonies, with some effort at transition? Probably not a hell of lot different.. Because any "transition" government would have been conveniently denigrated as pawns of the colonialists by the kleptocrats seeking to exert their own dominance. The heart of any civilized society is the belief that each of us has inalienable rights, IMO. From that belief springs the awareness that no one is "born better" than any one else, also known as the caste system. Certainly in India, this belief existed long before the Brits arrived, and continues to exist there today. But Japan provides an interesting example.. They seemed to make the leap from feudal society to industrialized state within a relatively short span of time. But they were forced to accept foreign presence, and even the political system they have now was imposed upon them out of the humiliating defeat of WWII.. Hawk