Writing for Borderlands, John Docker of the ANU asks: Is America a Failed society?
"As well as a general curiosity, then, I wished to know how much did the US think of itself as a settler-colonial society, including its scholars, its intelligentsia? Would there be an awareness of American history as a history of genocide? Is there a public culture that discusses such questions? Indeed, what sort of public intellectual culture would this society have at close quarters?"
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When the Dali Lama was asked what he thought of western society he replied
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