"Westerners also have problems understanding Eastern concepts like Tao, Buddhism's Nirvana, Confucius' filial piety even when they know the words for them." Ex

"Westerners also have problems understanding Eastern concepts like Tao, Buddhism's Nirvana, Confucius' filial piety even when they know the words for them." Exactly. I'm talking about people that only speak one language, and had not been exposed to different worldviews. But you talk about Confucious, Tao or Buddhism... How many years those concepts have? Where are Asian Kant, Ortega or Nietzsche. In China there is another issue and is that the power bureaucracy simply killed their Kants, as they were dangerous for population control, but that is another issue. My native languages are Spanish,then learned German and French. But French is very similar to Spanish, German very similar to English, and languages become easier the more you speak. You go to England, you see Churches, not very different from Spanish or French ones. In Asia there is another core set of values, but there is a world of difference between China and India. I don't speak Thai, but I had traveled to Thailand and in my view they have very little in common in the way of thinking and expression. In my view Thailand is more similar to India than China. This is a highly political issue, it is like saying to Catalan nationalist they are Spanish, because even when they are very similar, they don't want to.