-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> That sounds like a neat class.  And it does seem to be true that
 SB> cultures keep overturning and altering one another.  The culture that
 SB> conquers another culture gets altered by the culture it conquers (as
 SB> well as changing or eliminating the conquered culture), and in turn
 SB> gets conquered itself.
 
 Depends on how you define "conquered". In the case of China, on more than
 one occasion one "religion" (under the auspices of the ruling class) would
 supress another, but I wouldn't say the supressed religion was ever 
 "conquered". What I find interesting about Asian religions (particularly
 Budddhism, Daoism and Shintoism) is that an individual can "believe" in
 aspects of each and nobody seems to get too bothered by it.
 
 Jim
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