However, I think this is best dealt with by being consistent. The same liberal principles which tell me it is wrong to exploit other cultures by force for personal gain tell me it is wrong to deny rights to women & ethnic, racial & sexual minorities. It's a care/harm thing.
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Fortunately, we do not have to pick a side and decide one to be clearly morally virtuous in all ways and the other to be morally bankrupt.
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If you look a little deeper, you will find that you can actually say this with great confidence. A few examples: sati, twin infanticide, FGM, honour killings, PEPFAR,
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*tries to think of an extant nation that hasn’t done that at least a little.*
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Why make nationalist claims anyway? Things like rule of law, civil rights, suffrage, democracy, right to privacy, habeas corpus -- even a number of social program -- have evolved matured over time, with various contributions from different places. They are better ideas.
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I have no problem promoting those ideas as the far better alternative to the oppressive, repressive, primitive traditionalist ideologies that still control people half the planet over. By all means, people can celebrate culture, but let's also join humanity in the 21st century.
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in latin america it's a running joke that it would have been much better to be an english colony...there's no reason to have post-colonial guilt specifically since no country have any interest in being like in their pre-colonial era.
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Helen, your country planted the seed of democracy all over the world and a rule of law. Huge contribution historically speaking.
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And i wonder what this reticence indicates, other than a precarious stage to higher growth or collapse. I have yet to find a culture who's guilt far exceeded it's capacity for dominance. Or one as self critical. If it can deal with history proportionately may yet be a virtue.
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that's not my reasoning at all, I'm more than open to the idea of being culturally imperialist
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