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However, to view the issue of Internet censorship as simply another blatant violation of human rights by the Chinese government is to impose our Western values on a country that considers its heritage and culture of benevolence to be superior to a culture based on property and rights. Such moral...

Author: By Marion Liu | Title: A New Take on Censorship | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

Some might contend that a Department of Culture would quickly become a Department of Propaganda. It could fall into the wrong hands. Yet this is a fear for any federal department. There’s a risk that even the Department of the Interior can fall prey to private contractors...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Jazz It Up | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

T hough True Love Revolution is an organization that has made much ado about standing for “objective truth,” its application of feminism to its argument for traditional marriage and abstinence is ethnocentric, misleading, and inaccurate.

Author: By Lena Chen | Title: The Abstinence Mystique | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

The Western dialogue over what to do about Burma's repressive military regime is often framed as a single dilemma: whether or not to impose international sanctions. The debate is polarizing. The pro-sanctions crowd claims the moral high ground, deploring the enrichment of a clutch of ethnocentric Burmese generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

The ownership of an automobile in the United States has become nothing short of a divine birthright. It’s a universally accepted fact: Americans love their cars and would sooner sacrifice their firstborn than relinquish their entitlement to the family sedan. And naturally, many have lambasted for years...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: India’s ‘Model T’ | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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