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"maff" |
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28 Feb 2004 04:52:27 AM |
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OT: Our most dangerous export |
Our most dangerous export
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1158200,00.html
Imposing free-market democracy on Iraq has unleashed ethnic hatred
Amy Chua
Saturday February 28, 2004
The Guardian
In May 1998, Indonesian mobs swarmed through the streets of Jakarta,
looting and torching more than 5,000 ethnic Chinese shops and homes. A
hundred and fifty Chinese women were gang-raped and more than 2,000
people died. In the months that followed, anti-Chinese hate-mongering
and violence spread throughout Indonesia's cities. The explosion of
rage can be traced to an unlikely source: the unrestrained combination
of democracy and free markets - the very prescription wealthy
democracies have promoted for healing the ills of underdevelopment.
How did things go so wrong?
Amy Chua
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0402210246.3abd2f86%40posting.google.com
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| User: "Kate " |
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| Title: Re: OT: Our most dangerous export |
28 Feb 2004 11:25:14 AM |
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On 28 Feb 2004 02:52:27 -0800, (maff) wrote:
Our most dangerous export
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1158200,00.html
Imposing free-market democracy on Iraq has unleashed ethnic hatred
Amy Chua
Saturday February 28, 2004
The Guardian
In May 1998, Indonesian mobs swarmed through the streets of Jakarta,
looting and torching more than 5,000 ethnic Chinese shops and homes. A
hundred and fifty Chinese women were gang-raped and more than 2,000
people died. In the months that followed, anti-Chinese hate-mongering
and violence spread throughout Indonesia's cities. The explosion of
rage can be traced to an unlikely source: the unrestrained combination
of democracy and free markets - the very prescription wealthy
democracies have promoted for healing the ills of underdevelopment.
How did things go so wrong?
She points out what so many conservatives and Neo-cons completely
missed. It's the bill of rights that protects the minorities that is
what makes this country strong and safe, not democracy. Without the
bill of rights and the belief in it, the majority simply abuses the
minorities and life is hell for anyone but the majority sheeples.
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Our most dangerous export |
29 Feb 2004 05:26:20 AM |
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(Kate ) wrote in message news:<406cce05.229223390@news-west.newscene.com>...
On 28 Feb 2004 02:52:27 -0800, (maff) wrote:
Our most dangerous export
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1158200,00.html
Imposing free-market democracy on Iraq has unleashed ethnic hatred
Amy Chua
Saturday February 28, 2004
The Guardian
In May 1998, Indonesian mobs swarmed through the streets of Jakarta,
looting and torching more than 5,000 ethnic Chinese shops and homes. A
hundred and fifty Chinese women were gang-raped and more than 2,000
people died. In the months that followed, anti-Chinese hate-mongering
and violence spread throughout Indonesia's cities. The explosion of
rage can be traced to an unlikely source: the unrestrained combination
of democracy and free markets - the very prescription wealthy
democracies have promoted for healing the ills of underdevelopment.
How did things go so wrong?
She points out what so many conservatives and Neo-cons completely
missed. It's the bill of rights that protects the minorities that is
what makes this country strong and safe, not democracy. Without the
bill of rights and the belief in it, the majority simply abuses the
minorities and life is hell for anyone but the majority sheeples.
Bill of Rights didn't protect Native Americans, African Americans,
Japanese Americans and mnay other ethnic minorities for a long time.
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| User: "Kate " |
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| Title: Re: OT: Our most dangerous export |
29 Feb 2004 11:00:27 AM |
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On 29 Feb 2004 03:26:20 -0800, (maff) wrote:
cobalt@newscene.com (Kate ) wrote in message news:<406cce05.229223390@news-west.newscene.com>...
On 28 Feb 2004 02:52:27 -0800, (maff) wrote:
Our most dangerous export
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1158200,00.html
Imposing free-market democracy on Iraq has unleashed ethnic hatred
Amy Chua
Saturday February 28, 2004
The Guardian
In May 1998, Indonesian mobs swarmed through the streets of Jakarta,
looting and torching more than 5,000 ethnic Chinese shops and homes. A
hundred and fifty Chinese women were gang-raped and more than 2,000
people died. In the months that followed, anti-Chinese hate-mongering
and violence spread throughout Indonesia's cities. The explosion of
rage can be traced to an unlikely source: the unrestrained combination
of democracy and free markets - the very prescription wealthy
democracies have promoted for healing the ills of underdevelopment.
How did things go so wrong?
She points out what so many conservatives and Neo-cons completely
missed. It's the bill of rights that protects the minorities that is
what makes this country strong and safe, not democracy. Without the
bill of rights and the belief in it, the majority simply abuses the
minorities and life is hell for anyone but the majority sheeples.
Bill of Rights didn't protect Native Americans, African Americans,
Japanese Americans and mnay other ethnic minorities for a long time.
So it was improved to do so.
The point is, without a basic list of rights that can't be violated to
protect every individual, you can't have a secure base to grow a
country. I believe this is far far more important than how the
decisions about leaders are made.
Real Shirts for Real People
http://www.cafeshops.com/realitees
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| User: "SMChristenson" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Our most dangerous export |
28 Feb 2004 04:53:33 PM |
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:25:14 -0600, Kate wrote:
She points out what so many conservatives and Neo-cons completely
missed. It's the bill of rights that protects the minorities that is
what makes this country strong and safe, not democracy. Without the
bill of rights and the belief in it, the majority simply abuses the
minorities and life is hell for anyone but the majority sheeples.
Anybody else remember when, relatively speaking, the former Yugoslavia was
the vacation spot and industrial poster child for communism? Much the
same thing.
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