[jaguar]

You hav e apoint but there are other factors. First of all nationalism is an unbelieveably powerful force, in China much of the youth's devition to the party is frightening. Second is that it takes a long time and alot of pressure to work against the concervative inertia of something of the shah (propably incorrect spelling) goverment in Iran. It all comes back to globalisation, which the economic side of globalisation has been very throughly worked out(with input from gee....every major corperation and western goverment - and noone else!), the cultural and social impacts have never relly been looked into and there are jsut *so* many issues its not funny.