“Reforming societies by force, whether revolutionary, autocratic, or despotic, never works. Lasting benefits cannot be bestowed; they must be earned through slow and painful development. No sage can overcome the inertia of the masses. Peter’s modernizing reforms were mere ripples on the marsh of Russian society; American immigrants accepted the founding fathers’ liberal propositions democratically.” – A little bird said…

Every reform is a rape as none can please everyone, and the States paid with blood and lives for independence from English crown as having visited Philadelphia did realize once again.

“Civilizations are not strictly related to ethnicity. Blacks are slowly assimilated into American Western civilization. Rather civilizations are about the core values: freedom, life, property, and a balance between the private and the public. In that sense, twenty-first century consumerist Japan is Westernized, while post-communist Russia, with deep communal and authoritarian sentiment, is not.”-

Yes, civilizations are not related to ethnicity, but ethnicity reflect local natural environment, of which adopting set particular rules constituting a very behavioral ground sustaining as seen particular local “civilization”. Denominating these tribal institutions at global scale according to “universal values” faces a clash-among-customs inevitably at any moment of human history recorded.

Substantial book triggered a monstrous volume of response hardly possible to blog.