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Most African slavery had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans who preached a universal religion, and who had long ago outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds with their ideals of equality.

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There are many differences among the arts, but there are also universal, cross-cultural aesthetic pleasures and values.

So what we've been suggesting is that we either need to amend the World Heritage Convention, so that it can adopt and urge universal protection of these World Heritage sites, or we need to change the name and call it Half-the-World Heritage Convention.

The things I can tell you about it: It's universal; we all have it.

It's arrogant in the sense that we think that we are best, and therefore we have the universal measure.

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