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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…
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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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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
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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…
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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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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added…
— Jimmy Carter
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second…
— Ernst Zundel
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I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create…
— David Icke
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In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of…
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty,…
— Garrett Hedlund
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If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one…
— Ralph Nader
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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of…
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