Western Quotes by Martin Jacques

8 Western quotes by Martin Jacques

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Martin Jacques’s commentary on the Western context comes through in eight short excerpts. This compact set provides a quick glimpse of his cultural analysis.

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Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright.…

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Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented…

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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…

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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…

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Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both…

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The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions…

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Australia - not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn't want to be regarded…

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China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw…

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No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness…

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Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board…

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The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting…

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One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new…

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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance -…

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