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Imitation: Imitation is the act of copying the behavior or appearance of another person or thing. It is a natural and important part of human development. See also Stages of Development.
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Thorstein Veblen on Imitation - Dictionary of Arguments

Krastev I 8
Imitation/Veblen/Krastev: (...) we should separate the imitation of means from the imitation of goals. We call the former borrowing rather than imitation. A classic formulation of this distinction was articulated by the great economic sociologist Thorstein Veblen, who wrote at the beginning of the twentieth century that the Japanese had borrowed ‘the industrial arts’ of the West but not the West’s ‘spiritual outlook’ or its ‘principles of conduct and ethical values’.(1)

1. Thorstein Veblen, ‘The Opportunity of Japan’, Journal of Race Development 6:1 (July 1915), pp. 23–38.


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Veblen, Thorstein
Krastev I
Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019


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