Melissan Chen comments on the great intra asian rice war
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It’s not like they invented an implement specifically for eating rice or anything. 🥢
Yeah but the jungle asians in this case didn’t apparently and resent being taught how to use utensils
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".
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.