The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself by Lawrence E. Harrison
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Overview: Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World–and for underachieving minorities in
the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to these questions, in a valuable follow-up to his acclaimed Culture Matters.
Drawing on a three-year research project that explored the cultural values of dozens of nations–from Botswana, Sweden, and India to China, Egypt, and Chile–Harrison offers a provocative look at values around the globe, revealing how each nation’s culture has propelled or retarded their
political and economic progress. The book presents 25 factors that operate very differently in cultures prone to progress and those that resist it, including one’s influence over destiny, the importance attached to education, the extent to which people identify with and trust others, and the role of
women in society. Harrison pulls no punches, and many of his findings are controversial.
Contradicting the arguments of multiculturalists, this book contends that when it comes to promoting human progress, some cultures are clearly more effective than others. It convincingly shows which values, beliefs, and attitudes work and how we can foster them.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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