--- John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote:
Stan should spend some time
> with the
> managerial-technical-professional yuppies of urban
> coastal China who are at
> one and the same time ardent opponents of
> hypocritical US big powerism,
> gluttons for the most banal and conspicuous
> varieties of consumer culture
> (ersatz "luxury" or "cosmopolitan" stuff from every
> corner of the planet),
> and indifferent to the suffering of the workers and
> peasants of their own
> country (in whose "development" they take such
> pseudo-nationalist pride!).
> Similar specimens can be found in Brazil, India,
> Russia, and South Africa,
> I'm sure.
While I agree with your point in general, those groups in Russia usually most worried about foreign cultural influence are on the left. E.g. the Communist Party introduced a bill to the Duma a few years ago (which failed) to protect the traditional Russian religions (that is, Orthodox Christianity and Sunni Islam, mainly) from competition from foreign "sects" like the Baptists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
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