What Empire Does to a Culture
13th Nov 2006, 19:04 GMT
Does imperialist centralization lead to a flourishing and cosmopolitan culture? I have frequently encountered this argument among friends of liberty. It is a version of the view that liberty sometimes must be imposed on people even if they are not culturally prepared for it. The problem with imposing liberal values by means of military force is that it tends to associate liberal values in the minds of the population with invasion and oppression. One is unlikely to be won over to the cause of women's rights when those preaching on behalf of that cause have stolen your farm, shot your brother, and blown your children's hands off with a land mine; indeed the cause of women's rights is probably in the long run set farther back by such associations. FULL ARTICLE
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