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Old 03-27-2008, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Tricky View Post
She told us that in China, people have absolutely no disposition about their government. Democracy isn't merely 'something of the west', they don't comprehend why they should even want to interfere with their government's business. They just don't think about it. They're.. politically ignostic.
You know, nearly everybody in the Soviet had wonderful things to say about Communism until it fell. Cultural anthropologists detail three public responses in social commonalities to the presence of an authoritarian bully: they either try to become part of the bully's pack, they quietly cheer the bully on, or they remain silent and make believe nothing has happened.
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