Why is the West culturally antagonstic towards non-state-controlled institutions?

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Originally posted by aneeshm


This is all very basic education, just the three Rs, and only up to 4th grade.

The scheme is made so that after the initial push is given, the school sustains itself. A school is supported by donations for five years, on average, after which it draws sustenance from the local community which benefits from it.

I wonder how much value is put in the project when donations from outside the community are needed to get it going.

[Spiffor]

Aneeshm: "The west" is something diverse. It's not one monolithic culture, as its culture constantly branched out since the ancient Greeks.

For example, what you say is utterly false in most Anglo countries, and even more so in the US (where there is a strong tradition of distrust against the state, and almost no tradition of distrust against private initiative).

OTOH, it's fairly true in France (but not nearly the charicature you describe), because France has a long trasition of state centralism and interventionism, dating back to Louis the 14th. That tradition affected political thought during the French enlightenment, which proved influential on continental Europe, but didn't affect the Anglosphere.

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