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I found this interesting...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53169-2003Oct6.html
I'm not sure I agree with this, viscerally...
"The only places where a Western culture has successfully transplanted itself
are those where great population pressure and genocidal methods were used to
extirpate the indigenous peoples. This is what happened in the United States. "
but when I try to think of counterexamples, I can't.
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| (...) I don't mean to be flip about this very serious issue, but such is the nature of conquest. People of other cultures may not automatically see the advantages of another way of life -- in fact those supposed advantages may be mitigated by (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Neither can I. I don't think it is 'western' culture thing either, after all if you've already got a culture why would you need to adopt someone else's. If you go back in history then all the 'great civilisations' were either created through (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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