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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (117300)	10/21/2003 1:38:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Traditional Chinese culture also has a clear elements of "submission to authority", "obedience", and so forth from what I have been able to gather. But this has not stopped them from climbing out of the hole dug for them by Chairman Mao - a hole probably deeper than that the Arab nations find themselves in today. It's an even better comparison when you take a longer view - look at China in 1840, the time of the Opium Wars, used to regarding the rest of the world as inferior barbarians from whom nothing could be wanted, now outgunned and outmatched in products as well. But even as central Chinese government floundered, overseas Chinese flourished. I don't know of any similar enterprises by 'overseas Arabs'.