... other Fascist, totalitarian regimes during World War II but within the wider 'West' too. The emergence of human rights debate can be seen as a 'Western' response to 'Western' conflict, which sought to see an end to such violations and acts of violence toward human beings, at the hands of their governments but also at an individual, civil level. As such there ... that Western culture does. Tharoor (1999/2000) states that "in the Confucian or Vedic traditions, duties are considered more important than rights, while in Africa it is the community that protects and nurtures the ...

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... More important, they believed that the mounting antislavery agitation would distract attention from the artificial inequalities among white men and upset the party's delicate intersectional alliances. Deep down, many suspected that the slavery issue was but a smokescreen thrown up by disgruntled elitists looking to regain the initiative from the real people's cause. Through the 1830s and 1840s, the mainstream ... believed) would degrade the status of white free labor. It would take until the 1850s before these contradictions fully unraveled the Jacksonian coalition. But as early as the m...

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