[Assam] System and People

[Chan Mahanta]

>I remember someone on the Net saying that ONLy those who have been 
>in developed , democratic nations are qualified to speak about how 
>to bring about functional democracy in a country. And that without 
>having spent a significant period of time in such a developed 
>country noone can develop democratic skills.


*** Yet another instance of a need to go back to ghrade school to 
understand simple English.









At 1:59 AM +0000 3/14/06, umesh sharma wrote:
>I remember someone on the Net saying that ONLy those who have been 
>in developed , democratic nations are qualified to speak about how 
>to bring about functional democracy in a country. And that without 
>having spent a significant period of time in such a developed 
>country noone can develop democratic skills.
>
>However, the issue was then raised that how would be possible for an 
>entire nation to transfer temporarily (for some years)  -all its 
>residents - to US or UK - to develop democratic skills. Any notions 
>on how to develop democratic skills in any other way?
>
>Umesh
>
>Barua25 <barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Chandan:
>I have been trying to convice you and others that you cannot change 
>a system without changing the people. Basically it is the people who 
>makes the system. The Indian democracy is Indian democracy because 
>of the Indian people. If the democracy is 'deshi' it because the 
>people are 'deshi'.
>
>Today while reading something on history of civilizations, I found 
>this quote, which seem to support my case. Thought therefore to post 
>it in case it makes sense to you and others:
>
>The quote:
>
>  >"If all Chinese people on earth had to disappear tomorrow, then 
>fairly obviously, Chinese civilization and ! culture >would 
>disappear with them. It is exactly this startlingly obvious 
>principle which determines the creation and >dissolution of 
>civilizations - once the people who create a certain society or 
>civilization disappear, then that society >or civilization will 
>disappear with them.
>  >If the vanished population is replaced by different peoples, then 
>a new society or culture is created, which reflects the >culture and 
>civilization of the new inhabitants of that region."
>What it means is that if all the Americans would vanish tomorrow, 
>and were replaced with all Indians, the democracy they will do will 
>be 'deshi democracy'. The opposite is also correct. If all the 
>Indians vanish tomorrow, and if they were replaced with Americans, 
>they will develop an American democracy here.
>Would like to see comments from netters
>Thanks
>RB
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