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\title{World Civilization and Culture: A New Track for CIV}

%wester[w89,jmc]	Proposals for a CIV track (World civilization and culture)
% wester[w88,jmc]		The Superiority of Western Culture
% wester.2[w88,jmc]	Western Technology and Western Culture


\noindent Abstract:  This is a proposal for a new CIV track.  Its
emphasis is on the ideas that underly the developing world civilization
and culture.  Most, but not all of these ideas were developed in the
West, and therefore the new track will have much in common with
the older Western Civilization program.  However, it differs from
present and past CIV tracks in the emphasis it puts on the process
whereby world institutions of civilization and culture are growing
out of developments that earlier were confined to the West.  Besides
the usual works, it will include writings of Sun Yat-Sen, Meiji era
Japanese writers, Young Turks and Russian Westernizers.

Its contemporary segment will study the fate of the ideas of democracy,
capitalism, communism, individualism in America, India, China, the
Soviet Union, Africa and Latin America.
\section{Introduction}

	Between 1450 and 1950 it would have made sense to speak
of Western technology and to contrast it with other approaches
to technology.  However, long before 1950 it had become clear
that there was really only one modern technolgy, and it was
being adopted all over the world.  Since 1950 it hasn't made
sense to regard it as being developed in the West.  Its development
as well as its use has become a world-wide phenomenon.

	The same is true of the institutions of civilization, only
to a somewhat lesser degree.  The ideas of
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 individual self-determination and responsibility,
 freedom of speech,
 free elections,
 rule by law
 and
free enterprise
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have a world-wide significance today.  Attempts to create a specifically
non-Western civilization have proved harmful to the countries involved
 and have mostly been abandoned.
\smallskip\centerline{Copyright \copyright\ 1989\ by John McCarthy}
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