I'm reading Fareed Zakaria's The Post American World. Zakaria opines the Third World is rapidly becoming more modern but not more Western. He distinguishes these two terms with the explanation:
I cannot figure out what he means, in the context, by the phrase "civil society." Can someone help me out?
Why, for example, is Beijing lacking in a civil society?
Becoming a modern society is about industialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, civil society.
Why, for example, is Beijing lacking in a civil society?
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