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For the first time, I disagree with you

Reader comment on item: You Need Beethoven to Modernize

Submitted by Sid (United States), Nov 13, 2009 at 17:11

Your comments are in line with old colonialists like Churchill or Macaulay. As a native from one of the former European colonies, I have heard such arguments before and I would not like to dignify it by trying to show any kind of logic in response.


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