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A Look at the Root Causes of the Arab Revolution [interview]
- FrojoS 15y agoI really liked this interview. I agree on most, especially: "Revolutions often end up as something different from what their supporters proclaim at the beginning. Democracies are fragile systems that require deep historic roots. It took almost a century from the time of the French Revolution in 1789 until the democratic form of government," and then later " In fact, only Great Britain, France and the United States, in that historic order, constitute the core of the West. But not Germany." What I find odd, is that he sees some factors like GDP per capita as secondary symtoms of rising female literacy but not the shrinking birth rates. I think, that shrinking birth rates are also just a symptom of rising female literacy!