wangyounonce

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   by wangyounonce 10y ago

   One interesting bit from the article "But we don’t still identify as “citizens of the Roman Empire,” and we certainly aren’t ruled by emperors who derive their authority from the gods of Mt. Olympus." Interesting because many Amer
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   by wangyounonce 10y ago

   Instead of asking in the abstract which is easy to misunderstand, how about trying something concrete. Give them a piece of text and ask them if they really do not know what it says. And analyze their response further than just the surface
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   by wangyounonce 10y ago

   I think you and your chinese friends might be miscommunicating or misunderstanding what you are talking about. Part of the problem might be that the western conception of what a language is, is wildly different from something like chinese.
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   by wangyounonce 10y ago

   Victor Mair does not indicate if the two who did ok were the ones from China and the rest not from or educated in China. Which would be kind of telling.
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   by wangyounonce 10y ago

   The author did not bring up the usual comparison of the ships of Zheng He vs Columbus. The chinese ships supposedly dwarf those of the europeans.
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   by wangyounonce 10y ago

   That is actually another debate in itself. One origin story is that kungfu was taught to the chinese by Bodhidharma an indian who is also taken as the first patriarch of Zen. This claim is of course rubbished by many. https://np.