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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical…
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the…
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one…
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If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the…
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The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now…
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of…
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that…
— Umberto Eco
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of…
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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