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Thailand foetus find breaks abortion taboo

A shrine in the Buddhist temple in Bangkok Cartons of milk and children's toys are placed at the shrine in the Buddhist temple in Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand -- In a quiet corner of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, an impromptu shrine has been created.

The Idea of Provincializing Europe

Europe . . . since 1914 has become provincialized, . . . only the natural sciences are able to call forth a quick international echo.
(Hans-Georg Gadamer, 1977)

The West is a name for a subject which gathers itself in discourse but is also an object constituted discursively; it is, evidently, a name always associating itself with those regions, communities, and peoples that appear politically or economically superior to other regions, communities, and peoples. Basically, it is just like the name “Japan,”. . . it claims that it is capable of sustaining, if not actually transcending, an impulse to transcend all the particularizations.
(Naoki Sakai, 1998)
PROVINCIALIZING EUROPE is not a book about the region of the world we call “Europe.” That

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