Melissan Chen comments on the great intra asian rice war
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I firmly believe that there is such a thing as a racial inferiority complex.
When a primitive civilization comes into contact with a superior one, the inferior civilization's culture becomes frozen in time. Anyone who changes is viewed as just adopting the foreign culture, and that change isn't "genuine", even if the change is obviously for the better. So tradition is permanently fixed and they stubbornly act in a backwards way for the rest of time. See "acting white".
Hear me out, I think that's only partially true.
Civilization is not a constant, but it's also something that you either crossed the finish line on centuries ago, or else never were capable of doing so. Do not pass go, do not invent running water.
When I was young and naive on my first job in telemarketing I literally said to the arab guy "why do you speak like that voluntarily when you have the ability to speak normally?"
Previous to that moment I genuinely thought that they simply weren't exposed to proper Swedish due to segregation.
Seems like China didn't have that problem because they annihilated all their own culture less than a hundred years ago. That gave them a way to copy whatever was useful from the rest of the world without a second thought about if it was "genuine" or not.
China would've went extinct if it weren't for Nixon cutting a deal with Deng Xiaoping to offshore American manufacturing.
One of the biggest mistakes ever made
That very well could be. My point is they weren't frozen in time by the experience. No "factories are too White" bullshit. If Nixon had tried the same thing in Africa, enough machine parts would have been sold for scrap that they'd be in the same spot today.
i can't decide whether that or the gold standard abandonment was the worst thing Nixon did.
North Korea might not even exist right now if it weren't for Nixon throwing China a life raft.
Chinese culture is cannibalism and eunichs.
Decisive Tang victory!
Historically untrue. In most cases, primitive civilizations take over 'superior' ones almost wholesale. Have you ever heard of Romanization and Hellenization?
100%. You can see it anytime anyone mentions bad black behavior to the average black person. They immediately pivot to what about white people. Everything at every time is about white people
I think it’s more cultural than racial
There's a horizon past which those two are basically the same thing.
Culture is downstream of biology.
Culture is downstream of religion
Culture and religion are both classical-definition-memes. And memes are downstream from genes.
Distance from the equator was also a factor.