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>Well, most countries are not particularly democratic And that is due to a great extent to culture, which is what the article is about > A colony usually has
by woodandsteel 7y ago
>Well, most countries are not particularly democratic
And that is due to a great extent to culture, which is what the article is about
> A colony usually has no culture of the 'citizen', since the people of the colony are basically a resource exploited by the colonist.
But Arab culture prior to the relatively brief period of Western colonization also did not have a concept of citizen, at least not in the democratic sense.
- pasabagi 7y ago>But Arab culture prior to the relatively brief period of Western colonization also did not have a concept of citizen, at least not in the democratic sense. This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, and I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottomanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottomanism, which is kinda interesting. I'm thinking the Ottoman thinking is probably the most relevant, since most of the middle east was part of the Ottoman empire.