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The western people should really lean a chapter from China. Chinese took it a great humiliation for losing the Opium Wars and for being "invaded" (by their own
by hintymad 4y ago
The western people should really lean a chapter from China. Chinese took it a great humiliation for losing the Opium Wars and for being "invaded" (by their own words) by multiple countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet, the Chinese didn't seek ridiculous terms like "decolonization of science". Instead, their moto is know your shame and you will have courage. So, their education systems kept telling students that Qing lost to the modern civilization and therefore they should learn from it. They kept telling students that Chinese was left behind in the last century because they fell behind on science and political systems. They paid great respect to modern science. They made it clear that there was no "Chinese medicine" versus "Wester medicine"[1]. There is only modern medicine and ancient medicine. Famous scientists are household names because they show up in textbooks, in popular science books, in bed stories, and in state-owned media. Nobel laureates are treated like demi-gods in China.
Compared to Chinese, some people in the western worlds really do not know how to respect the great civilization pioneered by the west.
[1] I was talking about the official message. Large number of Chinese people still believed in Chinese medicine
- jhanschoo 4y agoAlso see: Japanese modernization in the Meiji era
- hintymad 4y agoExactly. They produced one Nobel laureate a year for the past 10 years. They could compete with the US on manufacturing. They have a working democracy. And by the way, democracy was created by western elites, no? Shall we call it white-supremacy and go back to the primitive social structures? And Japanese didn't lose their culture identity. Heck, they've been exporting their culture. They didn't even need to translate their language. We say Tempura instead of deep-fried shrimps. T