Since we're about political populism this month, let's talk about values a little bit. This term which is most often used in the plural, and is being so overused in recent times for all sorts of occasions and purposes: from political debates to the regular Sunday sermon, from TV talk-shows to newspaper headlines. Some prefer to put some adjectives
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I'd argue that even the representative democracy we hold so dear isn't really a Western Value, since it was practiced (in its own way) back during the Roman Republic (and while that region might nowadays be called part of "The West," so-called "western values" always seems to be a code-word for "Enlightenment Values," and the Romans were a bit before the Enlightenment, after all. ;)
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You're right about other civilisations preceding the Western one and actually being the first to invent some of the models and principles that it now has the audacity to consider its own creation.
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