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The emergency meeting was to authorize removal when the company that had already been hired to remove the Confederate statues got done early and offered to complete the additional statue relocation at no extra cost. As cited in this article, they were already planning on relocating the statue...

This is something of a misrepresentation, however -- the statue of Lewis, Clark, and Sacajawea is being moved to a different location rather than being removed entirely, and this was a completely separate matter from the removal of Confederate statutes. Apparently, the contractor that was hired...

At one extreme yes. At the other extreme, excessive veneration of ancestors is why Japan *to this day* largely only makes technological advancement by imitating the West. The Japanese practice of only *ever* making modest tweaks and refinements to the same basic methods is rooted in the idea...