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Western scholars are also pretty good at creating straw men and selling contrarian, reductionist social theories that deftly project their own value systems ont
by wahern 4y ago
Western scholars are also pretty good at creating straw men and selling contrarian, reductionist social theories that deftly project their own value systems onto other groups even while claiming the opposite. That aptitude is readily explained by your distinguishing points.
- llanowarelves 4y agoIndeed. The West's constituents on average are the least in-group preferential, and incorrectly assume that non-Westerners are the same. And they assume that non-Westerners value the same civilizational values like Truth over (Social) Face, Truth over Harmony, etc. as much as they do. Ironically, those not from the West, let's say a developing African country, will appreciate the West's (relatively) high trust (Japan would be moreso) and less clannish (more meritocratic) nature for doing business and growing wealth in a whole lot more than almost anyone born in the West (who take deep social values as a given for all humans. which is just them optimistically projecting, it's not ill-willed).