The Elephant at the Dragon
This comment reflects in many ways important elements about how and why the Chinese view the Indians as they do: … your question has answers in two periods. The second and most recent was during the cold war, shaped by Chinese elite (diplomatic) interaction with their Indian counterparts during this period who came to see …
What is a civilization?
Thinking about the Harsh Gupta podcast and what “civilization” is. What is this identity? how does it form and cohere? In The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Samuel Huntington emphasizes religion. This makes total sense to a person from South Asia. Religion has become the major fault-line in the Indian subcontinent. …
The continuity of a people
From a comment below [edited]: The Chinese and Egyptians are an interesting case in this because they had one of the earliest written scripts (or rather tradition across generations to impart and carry information) and it was spread over long surviving/thriving timelines. But then Egyptians lost the linguistic capability and lost their history even though […]
Why Far Right parties are doing well in Scandinavia
These are the type of “immigrants” which are much more common and visible in Scandinavia than in the USA (note that these don’t represent the majority, many are intra-Norden migrants and so aren’t salient, or are culturally easy…
Why are Muslims so eloquently barbaric?
I want to follow up Eurasian Sensation’s post on female false-consciousness. If you look in the World Values Survey you’ll see that plenty of non-Muslim societies are very reactionary and barbaric, even savage. The anti-gay hysteria in Uganda is representative of the non-Muslim face of barbarism. China, Japan, and Korea, are very secular societies, where […]