File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9805, message 127


Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:04:27 +0200
From: David Skreiner <david_s-AT-hco.kol.ou.dk>
Subject: Re: here we go... (III)


> There's nothing Christian in U.S. policies, just as there's nothing Hindu
> in Indian policies.

Well, you could argue for a sort of Puritan heritage, with all the stress
put on individualism and so on, which is political, since it prevents the
USA from establishing a functioning social net... Max Weber wrote
about that (the Puritan heritage, not the social net)

dave



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