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April 3, 2006
Does Non-Western Culture Prevent Democratization?
Topics: Culture and SocietyAMARTYA SEN, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, and original proponent of the proposition that democracies never have famines, has an excellent article, "Democracy Isn't 'Western' Cultural determinists should look beyond Ancient Greece," that I want to bring to your attention. He says:
....The determinism of culture is increasingly used in contemporary global discussions to generate pessimism about the feasibility of a democratic state, or of a flourishing economy, or of a tolerant society, wherever these conditions do not already obtain.
Indeed, cultural stereotyping can have great effectiveness in fixing our way of thinking....
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Posted by Rudy at April 3, 2006 10:18 PM
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