cool, you know what I'm talking about then :) and yes, I agree about the authoritarian mindset being bad for a lot of things. But that's the culture - you can'

cool, you know what I'm talking about then :) and yes, I agree about the authoritarian mindset being bad for a lot of things. But that's the culture - you can't impose western values on a people that don't share the same underlying assumptions about humanity. That's the thing that got to me most: the people I talked to about it genuinely don't believe that "all people are created equal". If you don't believe that, then democracy makes no sense at all.