Summary of Primacy of Culture by Francis Fukuyama

The future of cultural scorpion democracy - Francis Fukuyama believes that a new ideology or political trend comparable to liberal democracy requires the development of civil society and culture. Therefore, he saw the only civil society, and the culture that seemed to be ready to do was Asia. Fukuyama's judgment is based on the claim that there must be four levels of change in the integration of democracy. The first is ideology, the second is institution, then civil society, and finally culture.

Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and writer. Fukuyama says that his work arguing that "the global spread of freedom of democracy and Western European free market capitalism and its lifestyle may mean the end of social and cultural evolution of human beings" his work "The end of history and the end People "(1992). And let's become the ultimate form of human government. However, "Trust: Social Virtue and Creation and Prosperity" (1995) later revised the previous position to recognize that culture can not be completely separated from economics. Fukuyama is also related to the rise of the New Conservative movement, and since that he has kept distance from himself.

In 1992, a book named 'The End of History and the Last Man' was written by a man named Francis Fukuyama. In this book, Fukuyama believes that we have reached the end of history. He believes that humanity has reached the end of social and cultural evolution and that free market capitalism and liberal Western democracy can not be improved. Looking back now, these statements are obvious paradoxes. Fukuyama said that the "unprecedented level of material prosperity" that he observed is not the only important measure for government success, but is certainly not only the critical measure for the end of human progress I did not notice.

Francis Fukuyama was born near Hyde Park in Chicago. In 1905, his grandfather ran away from the Russo-Japanese War and opened a shop on the west coast before World War II was detained. His father, Fukuyama Yoshio, was a second Japanese American who received a doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago, taught religious studies, receiving a pastor's training at the congregist church. His mother, Toshiko Kawada, was born in Kyoto, Japan, was the founder of the Faculty of Economics at Kyoto University, the daughter of Shiro Kawada, the first president of Osaka City University. Francisco grew up as the only child in Manhattan, had little contact with Japanese culture, did not learn Japanese. His family moved to Pennsylvania State University in 1967.