¶ China (1)
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China:
“We are very tiny. We are only 200 million and” in China “one deals with billions. Our own interpretation of our own experience is not even mildly adequate. I find it so affected by bias that we view it only as the inside of our own triangle. China is the big triangle; we are the small one. They are liable to be a little bigger than we are about our misunderstandings and differences in general, because they have had more experience. The Orient’s social and intellectual process has been going on in continuity for a longer time than has our ‘Euro-American’ transplant, though we probably have all been on the Earth for the same amount of time. In their 5,000 years of continuously recorded experience, the Chinese have been seeking for those generalized principles constituting natural law, in respect to which they might hopefully develop social conventions or law. There is an intuitive objection on their part to all that is artificially frustrating to the success of all mankind. The erroneously taught Greek bias, which characterizes ‘our side’s’ superiority complex, seems invalid to China.”
- RBF in AAUJ Journal, p. 177, May '65
