Since the mid-20th century, Europe has changed dramatically, in many ways.¹ It has lost its colonies, and as it established crony-ship with the world’s dictators and autocrats, and continued unabashedly to plunder the world’s riches, it slowly but surely lost its self-proclaimed patina of ‘civilization.’ Its symbolic value as a protector of equality and human rights around the world had all but disappeared by the end of 20th century.

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自20世纪中叶以来，欧洲在许多方面发生了巨大变化。¹它失去了殖民地，与世界上的独裁者和独裁者建立了王室联姻，并毫不掩饰地继续掠夺世界上的财富，但它却缓慢而肯定地失去了自称为“文明”的古铜色。到20世纪末，它作为全球平等与人权保护者的象征价值几乎消失了。