EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST. Do not use your western standard to measure us. We are totally different in many ways. Our culture, freedom of expression and perceptions are totally different. Do respect and understand. Try to shave off your colonial and imperialistic mentality. Arrogance and ignorance only make matters worse.
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Make Way For The Rise Of Asia
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For too long, Americans have assumed that their nation would always remain the world's strongest and need not adapt to the rest of the globe. It's high time to abandon that belief. The United States will not always be exceptional. Indeed, in some senses, it no longer is. Its economy, like others, will have to change if it is to meet the challenges of globalization. Both its working and middle classes will have to retool to compete. Americans should stop pretending that they are immune to pressures for change. Instead, the United States should learn to behave like a normal country. Luckily, pragmatism is a traditional American virtue; right now the nation needs all it can get.
Mahbubani is dean of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the author of the forthcoming book,"The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East."
© 2007
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