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On my mind July 4, 2009
Mixing cultures can get a little sticky. We are finding that, even though China has taken on some aspects of American and European Capitalism, its grasp of Democracy and its concept of governance are quite different from the west’s.
The same is true of the Arab world, and of South/Central America, Africa, and pretty much all of the rest of the world.
Americans are finally grasping the reality that simply being able to sell stuff on a large scale to third world nations and emerging nations and nations with as much so-called ‘advanced’ history and culture as ours does not guarantee that intellectual concepts behind owning a car, for instance, will match the intellectual concept that drives a Texan to buy a gonzo like-a-rock pick-up. Mexicans, for instance, might want that big pick-up to haul something other than manure into the US.
In other words, if we expect the mere ownership of more big-item stuff to turn everyone on the planet into someone who wants stuff just to have stuff like we do, we’ll continue to be sorely disappointed.
Happy 4th of July.
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