notebookstack

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   by notebookstack 7y ago

   I think the comparison in situation/contrast in international attention being made is more between Catalonia and Hong Kong. There's certainly a ton of other important issues causing the unrest, but there is a certain element of xe
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   by notebookstack 7y ago

   Democracy was forcibly imposed on Japan by the US when they lost WWII; India had been colonized by the British and its elites exposed to their cultural and political systems for 200 years before independence. In Western Europe, the process
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   by notebookstack 7y ago

   So...because you don't personally know any of these 1.4 billion people, you feel like it's okay to make whatever assumptions you want about every single one of them? Is that not dehumanization? Would you enjoy having others'
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   by notebookstack 7y ago

   Have you been on any Chinese social media?
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   by notebookstack 7y ago

   I actually think that everybody has had unrealistic expectations about the speed of democratization in China. That doesn't mean that it won't yet happen. If you look at the recent US-led debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, or even t