Individual rights are meaningless if you don't exercise them. Being imperialistic is only going to reinforce the mentality in which people blindly obey. Every culture, every nation has such examples, including my own. They should be resisted wherever they occur. At the risk of raising some hackles myself, I'll just wonder aloud that this might be a difference between native and expatriate communities.
Created entities have none.
So 'cultural imperialism' that advances individual rights is A Good Thing. James I did not mean to suggest that no one has ever delegated authority to a goveernment or other entity. Every culture, every nation has such examples, including my own. They should be resisted wherever they occur. A lot of Indians in fact put pressure on the British to stop the practice here.