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And as Wolf rightly points out, this genealogy “turns history into a moral success story, a race in time in which each runner of the race passes on the torch of liberty to the next relay. . [T]his turns into a story of how the winners prove that they are virtuous and good by winning” (Wolf 1997, 5). Beneath it all is the unfortunate presumption that Africa, in particular, has very little, if anything, to contribute to the cultural development of the West. Like all myths, there is some analytical value in cultural dichotomies—hence their enduring popularity.
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