“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.” PeopleIfsYearsInterestDemocracyConditionsMediaOughtFitModelsIdealsTestsWesternAbstractConformAdoptedKoreaSingaporePhilippinesTaiwanWestern Media Author:Goh Chok Tong
“The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.” WorldHumansMayIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentFormStruggleDemocracyEconomicMankindEvolutionModelsWesternFinalsBoringDevotedMundaneIdeologicalExhilaratingThesisLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.” WayTakenBrokenModelsFundamentalsWesternChinaChineseSplitsUnfairImmoralGoing To Work Author:Francis Fukuyama
“It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.” KindChildrenSchoolCertainPathModelsAdultsWesternCurrentsFocusedCuriousCorporateEfficientUrbanUnitsOpen MindedWrong Path Author:David W. Orr
“One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.” ShouldHas BeensCharacterStoriesSeemsActionParticularReaderSafeModelsTraditionForgivingCleanWesternBonesPsychologicalNarrativeLoudConventionsRealismBugsForgive MeTropes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.” ThinkingWorldTryingTermSpaceVisionSuccessfulEconomicModelsWesternAlternativesTurkeysAdvocating Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.” WayPlaySongCultureModelsWesternOther Cultures Author:DJ Spooky
“The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.” ModelsMeetingsWesternAgendas Author:Howard Rheingold
“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.” PeopleIfsTryingInterestActingLibertyWillingBalanceModelsTraditionMethodWesternContraryAlternativesExtrasWestern Society Author:Edward Snowden
“There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that is leading to experimenting with different models that are much less democratic. But even in Western Europe the deficit is a problem.” DifferentRealProblemGovernmentAmericaParticularModelsEuropeConcernDemocraticWesternLatinDeficitLatin AmericaDeliveringWestern EuropeDemocratic Government Author:Mary Robinson