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Kwame Anthony Appiah: belief

31 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World

“I agree that the relative positions of the North Atlantic societies is obviously in decline.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Kwame Anthony Appiah
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belief
Recorded
31 Jul 2019
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…But even if that’s a good idea, what if it’s just the case that, say, the rise of China lowers the global status of the West? It means stagnant middle-class wages in many places, and those things are just facts. We could have done a number of choices differently, but at the end of the day, people will be upset about that and turn back to nationalism. I agree that the relative positions of the North Atlantic societies is obviously in decline. England in particular, yeah.…

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