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Article: Human rights can be manifested differently
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- December 12, 2005
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A unique outlook on human rights has taken shape in China, the
largest developing country in the world. It is founded on the basis
of the country's own experience in human rights development over the
last two decades since embarking on the road of reform and opening up
in the late 1970s. China has also absorbed rational human rights
ideas from other cultures.
Human rights are acquired by people instead of being given by God.
Human rights are a product of social and historical situations. They
are the rights society gives to its members.
Western human rights ideas uphold the idea that people are born
equal. We think that people should be born equal. But no such
equality is found in class ...