Posted by Sigismund on October 29, 2008, at 18:14:48
In reply to Re: More )PC » Sigismund, posted by Partlycloudy on October 29, 2008, at 17:41:04
Naturally I have a great deal of sympathy for the Tibetan people, let me say in advance.
When Rudd addressed some uni students in a top Beijing university for the elite (in Mandarin) they did not like him saying that good friends tell each other the truth (about human rights in Tibet), using some category I forget that is relevant only to the Chinese. But because he had taken the trouble to learn their intellectual and political history and language, they were prepared to sit through it respectfully.
I am trying to say that the world can look very different depending on your viewpoint, and countries in the future may not see the history of Europeans the way we do now.
We shall see what 20 years brings. My guess is that the non-European peoples of the world will remember the history of the European peoples (the west) and will be in no mood to listen to lectures from them.
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