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You’re 100% right. Democracies are going to collapse in a lot of places because the people in these places never really wanted democracy or even cared much for
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
You’re 100% right.
Democracies are going to collapse in a lot of places because the people in these places never really wanted democracy or even cared much for it. They were just handed it down because the people the colonizers left in charge were born and bred within the colonizer’s own political systems.
- rayiner 4y agoGood example: https://unherd.com/2021/04/the-culture-wars-of-post-colonial-india/ https://unherd.com/2021/04/the-culture-wars-of-post-colonial... Although I think it's not quite about "democracy." Many people don't want liberal democracy. They might be fine with non-liberal democracy: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/shadi-hamid-on-islamic-exceptionalism.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/shadi-hamid-on-i...
- PradeetPatel 4y agoWhich arguably may not be a bad thing. Letting the indigenous people of the land govern it according to their own cultural norms and values will allow new and diverse values to flourish.
- xvector 4y ago"Cultural norms" and "diverse values" like the oppression and subjugation of women, or mass government censorship as above? Some nations don't deserve the sovereignty they have. I don't think anyone would shed a tear if the UAE was taken over and replaced by a government that actually guarantees some basic human rights.
- dendriti 4y agoYou do know that the oppression and subjugation of women and minorities was often brought by colonizers, right? Singapore's anti-homosexual laws, for example, were promulgated by the British. They didn't always bring enlightenment.
- n4r9 4y agoSame with India. Homosexuality was an accepted (not necessarily always approved) part of the culture for hundreds of years until the British outlawed it in the 18th Century.
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