[ExI] "Toward a Type 1 civilization" by Michael Shermer
Stefano Vaj
stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 12:30:16 UTC 2008
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:
>
>> Japan has copied in a remarkably close fashion constitutional
>> technicalities from the western world. Yet, out of indirect
>> information and personal experience I am under the impression that
>> China is much more deeply westernised these days, as far as the real
>> power structures and society working are concerned, in spite of the
>
> Westernised how?
At a cultural and mentality level. Anedoctical evidence, however,
please do not challenge me to offer examples of in-depth sociological
or anthropological or economic studies. :-)
Stefano Vaj
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