Selected Speeches Of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I

CHAPTER II

PART 2

INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONS

From the time that Emperor Haile Selassie I threw open wide the door of Ethiopia's centuries-old isolation the trend has developed of closer cultural relations with the outside world. A principle in the Emperor's outward-looking policy, as enunciated in Modern Ethiopianism, is to distil from modern-day culture those elements suitable and to blend them with those retained from the nation's own history and traditions.

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January 4, 2017