Each of these men was intimately concerned with the problem of human rights and their flagrant disregard by their respective governments. Gandhi, in turn, influenced and inspired the American civil right activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. Gandhi as he lay incarcerated in a South African jail. Henry David Thoreau one of the New England transcendentalists, in turn exercised an influence on Mohandas K. One very important example of beneficiai East-West cultural interflow is the influence of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism on the New England transcendentalists. Not all cultural interflow, unfortunately, has been for the best although on this point there could never be universal agreement. Such interflow has played a very strong role in the development of the contemporary world. Macau has a right to be proud of its history of facilitating East-West cultural interflow. THOREAU, GANDHI, KING, AND NONVIOLENCE:An Example of East-West Cultural Interflow
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