Original sentence: It brings forward a definition of civil society:.The Anglosphere Institute thinktank has been a proponent of the idea that there is something intrinsic and distinctive about the Anglosphere countries as societies
Edited sentence: In the words of The Anglosphere Institute:.It also implies that these cultural and institutional characteristics are fairly deep-seated, and changes, negative and positive alike, usually require several generations to take full effect.It is important to reject a narrow, triumphalist view of the Anglo-American role in this matter and to stress again that it was the confluence of a number of social, geopolitical, and historical factors that created this link.Similarly, other cultures can, and in some cases have acquired characteristics with similar effects.The characteristics that have given the Anglosphere its leadership to date, being acquired rather than innate, can be lost as well as acquired.Theories that seek a racial, ethnic, or religious virtue as an explanation of the Anglosphere's leadership of the Industrial and Democratic Revolutions are as ill-founded as the mirror-opposite theories that seek to assign some unique iniquity to England or America