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james t kirk brings up a good point: if after hundreds and even thousands of years your society has lived under autocratic rule - sudden overnight freedom or democracy can cause a lot of problems
the world is mostly made up of autocratic nations and yes even in our own "backyard" (South America/Latin America) a good nubmer of countries are autocratic - many if not most have tried forms of democracy but the tradition of military strongmen and dictators has kept those nations so...
thats why we often use the word "Americanism" - a common set of values and beliefs that Americans in general share - in many nations, however, they have their own form
/shrug - good discussion on this stuff btw!
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