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Ilias, you confuse invention with advertisement.
Athens did not invent democracy. It invented limited citizenship, rule by a few men over slaves, women, and foreigners.
The majority were excluded, and the minority voted to keep it that way.
That's not democracy. It's a shareholders' meeting for slaveowners.
Long before Athens, Asia practiced governance by consultation and consensus.
The Chinese minben tradition held that "the people are the foundation of the state," centuries before Pericles gave a speech about it.
Vietnamese village assemblies made collective decisions through discussion, not decree.
Indian republics like the vajji-sangha practiced elective councils when Europe was still burning witches and debating whether peasants had souls.
Greece wrote democracy in marble.
Asia practiced it in memory.
And as for the "right to vote," remember what Europe did with it:
It voted for colonialism, for slavery, for apartheid, and for two world wars.
It voted to civilize others with the whip and the bomb.
So forgive the rest of the world for not worshiping ballots that came with bayonets.
Democracy is not the act of voting.
It is the act of remembering who suffers when you vote.
You call it a Greek invention because you mistake form for ethic.
You built parliaments while erasing peoples.
We built endurance while surviving you.
China did not invent democracy.
It invented continuity.
A civilization that can outlast emperors does not need lectures from one that can't outlast elections.
So yes, Greece gave the world the word.
But Asia gave the world the patience to make it mean something.
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