这个国家以前经历了两场巨大的斗争，以实现真正的多元文化民主。

This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy.

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从其当代形式来说，西方民主被认为不适合于我们国家的文化传统。

In its contemporary form, western democracy is held to be ill-suited to our country's cultural traditions.

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特纳声称，边疆产生了个人主义，个人主义是美国文化的标志，而这种个人主义反过来又促进了民主制度和经济平等。

Turner claimed that the frontier produced the individualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and that this individualism in turn promoted democratic institutions and economic equality.

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The democracy itself needs a literate citizen rate in order to keep it in check.

为了保持国家的持续进步,一个民主国家需要更多的高文化素养的公民。

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I also explain new kind of literacy, this new emerging literacy, what we recognize as new literacy, civic literacy, which also is referred to as political literacy.

我也想介绍一下，这种新文化素养，新兴的文化素养，我们称之为“民主文化素养“,也被称为政治文化素养。

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They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

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