But while Rwanda may not yet be on the other side of the digital divide, the country is surprisingly progressive when it comes to the environment, especially for an emerging economy entering the industrial age.
A career Republican who proudly calls Nixon — the progenitor of the war on drugs — his "mentor," Stone is surprisingly progressive when it comes to drug policy issues.
Given his track record, Bush's 2008 stimulus package was surprisingly progressive.
Green Day's early work was surprisingly progressive, and rarely – especially for US pop-punk – overtly misogynist.
Even Jean-Jacques Annaud's officially sanctioned epic Wolf Totem ($110.5m) was surprisingly progressive, venting about Cultural Revolution hypocrisies.
Perhaps impossible might be more accurate considering that George Bush's attempts at immigration reform, which were surprisingly progressive and pragmatic, failed twice.
In an era and a region where free speech wasn't particularly encouraged, its authors boldly satirized politics, religion, colonialism, Westernization, and modernization, education (or lack thereof), and the oppression of women (Azerbaijan was surprisingly progressive on women's issues at the time, granting women the right to vote in 1919 — a year before the United States).
But whether those two objectives are actually compatible remains open for debate.For a party closely tied to the oil industry, the Conservatives who won a majority on May 2nd after five years of minority government have been surprisingly progressive in protecting boreal land.
To me, that's surprisingly progressive in comparison to the views of his predecessor, Pope Benedict.
We have well-being lessons on gender identity and fluidity that have been surprisingly progressive, but as for power and confidence, we've never heard anything about that.
For a Western listener, unfamiliar Khmer voices rise above familiar grooviness, and the lyrics, translated in subtitles in the film, are surprisingly progressive.
