Nope , I had to compare it to another copy in store to be sure . <| sep |> I was never afraid of my dog snapping . They mostly sleep when I ' m not home and I made sure I trusted them before leaving them alone together . My cat is out plenty , it actually didn ' t take him long to get used to the dogs presence . <| sep |> North Korea only had the communist block to rely on . The Soviet union didn ' t give a shit about them and China used them as a buffer zone . Which , if you take a look , the communist block was what was surrounding them . And what did they do ? They turned them into slaves . Heh , do you really believe that Africans did not own slaves ? The majority of slaves that were usedimported were slaves that were enslaved by Africans . That of course doesn ' t make it acceptable or tolerable , but the idea that slavery was a European concept simply has no historical merit , it was just whether their owners were European or African . They where treated as sub humans . No , no they weren ' t outside of some isolated instances such as in the Congo , the vast majority of times they were viewed as equals . Treaties and agreements were signed by the European powers and African tribes the same way that Europeans treated other Europeans which , admittedly wasn ' t always the best Used as slaves while the white man handled the economy and everything else important . Show me how in Ian Smith ' s Rhodesia one of the last bastions of colonial Europe in Africa the Africans were used as slaves . Then the white man left a country full of uneducated people they were refused education in a already modernised world . They were not refused education , rather unlike in Europe there was not an extensive network of schools . When the Europeans arrived into Africa south of the Sahara they did not encounter universities or schools , so everything had to be started from scratch . Just like how in frontier America there was no real educational system , in the dark continent there wasn ' t much either . Those who could afford it would send their kids to Europe for proper education , but that ' s the same way with those in frontier America . No one was refusing education to Africans and no one was refusing education to the Americans on the frontier , it just so happens that a proper educationuniversity system is one of the last things to be developed in a community . In Africa , there were a few schools that popped up near settlements but there ' s no evidence to show that Africans were denied education , on the contrary , most of the rulers of Africa were educated during the colonial period in these few schools that did exist in Africa . For example the African presidenttyrant Mugabe was educated at Kutama College during British rule . If you look at African universities , you ' ll find that they were almost all founded in the twilight years of European rule simply because in a frontier community educational institutions are among the last to be formed . It ' s not only colonisation . Look at Somalia during the 70 ' s and 80 ' s . Seriously . Image searched it . It looked like Europe . Somalia was a socialist state then . Look at Afghanistan before the CIA put their hands in there . Both countries where doing fine . I ' ll agree , America has done a terrible job of civilizing the world when compared to the British , French , Spanish and Portuguese . America fails to properly rebuild countries . The US is leader in world economy and sets guidelines for the rest of the western world to follow . You ' re really overestimating the power the USA has . Other countries follow America ' s example because they tend to be pretty good at having a prosperous nation , much like how America emulated the great European powers . China is one of the most brutal dictatorships to exist today . What are you talking about ? China isn ' t there yet . But China is becoming more and more capitalist , its becoming more and more free . Outside of a couple of banned things you can absolutely live a mostlyfree life in China and things are rapidly improving . Yes , freedom of speech is not yet 100 %, but no , China is not one of the most brutal dictatorships in existence today . And things are much better today than in Mao ' s China and the reason is because China is becoming more and more westernized . There is no other force that has contributed to China ' s success other than emulating Europe and the USA . They are just like the Soviet union was . Tell me , what can the average Chinese citizen not do that an American citizen can do ? There ' s only about two things that the average American citizen can exercise that a Chinese citizen cannot do and that is the Chinese citizen cannot bear arms and in general the American citizen has better freedom of speech . I ' m not saying that things are perfect in China or America but things are much , much better than what you make it out to be . Japan was a highly militarised dictatorship in the 40 ' s . They where literally cut off from the rest of world . Dude what are you talking about ? Pray tell me how the Nazis became so powerful ? Did they have western values ? Yes , the Nazis had some Western values and built their society on a modern , Western nation . The Nazis lost in part because of their failure to uphold Western values . By ignoring the core tenant of everyone being under the law , Hitler was allowed to drain the coffers on his pet projects rather than focusing on winning the war . How was the Soviet union able to be # 2 in the world ever since ww 2 ? It ' s not about culture . Tsarist Russia was a western in comparison to the rest of the world power , but Russia mostly managed to become a power by brute force and a western education system . If we look at the world by population , its pretty easy to see why Russia was number 2 . Top countries by populationChina Not westernized until the 1980 sIndia Mostly rejected westernization , now reluctantly accepting it USA Westernized , number 1 power Indonesia Not westernized Brazil Westernized in some parts but not really developed until after the world wars Pakistan Mostly rejected westernization , now reluctantly accepting it Nigeria Mostly rejected westernizationBangladesh Mostly rejected westernizationRussia Fully westernized up until the Russian Revolution , partially westernized after that Its no wonder that Russia is number 2 when the competition is so poor Yes it is . No its not , individual rights are Western but democracy is not . The idea of one person , one vote did not exist in much of Western civilization . After all , universal suffrage didn ' t exist until 1893 with New Zealand and women did not have the right to vote in all elections in Switzerland until 1990 . You can and do have Western civilization in places without democracy . That ' s not exclusive to Western thinking What other thinking has it ? Asian thinking rejects individuality . Islamic thinking rejects the law applying to all people Shaia law makes distinctions between what Muslims and nonMuslims follow . African thinking tends to reject both equality under the law and individual rights .