If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
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If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
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We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
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The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
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Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
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