Multicultural Perspectives - General Questions
Japan is one of the worst exploiters of nature: whaling and
commercial exploitation.
Doesn't this contradict Eastern thought?
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Now I know where the group "Nirvana" got their name.
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Could the Samurai ever truly claim that they had achieved
all required of them? Was there
ever any person who could be Confucius' "perfect person,"
virtuous and flawless in behavior?
Are these requirements meant to be unrealistic and unattainable?
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I enjoyed the readings from both the Asian and Arabic
philosophy. My family has three
generations under one roof and we are typically looked at
strangely by our fellow "typical"
American "nuclear" families. It was refreshing to see our
family's views for "respect for the
elderly" in other cultures. With the reading on the Samurai, I
have always been taught by my
grandfather to "look down the road and anticipate what's up
ahead." The passage saying
"anticipate all eventualities and deal with them before they
become a problem...'win
beforehand'" (625) really hit me.
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Can you further explain the idea of what is meant by
colonial and post-colonial thinkers? Is
this a reference to time period or a way of thinking?
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I noticed that almost all of the traditions outside the Anglo-American and Europeans
(non-AAE) traditions advocate
nonviolence. I believe that one
important reason why these non-AAE traditions last and do not
"run away" is that they tend not
to be violent, unlike the AAE's. (Of course some non-AAE
traditions didn't approve of
nonviolence, but is it correct for me to state what I said?)
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In China they practiced foot binding. Men controlled
everything that has to do with family.
In India they have class structure. It used to be a practice in
India to kill their babies if they did
not have a male. In Asian countries females are commonly advised
they can have more than one
wife. In China you can only have one kid. To me that's no
liberty. The individual or community
is not free to leave. It is a communist state. In some middle
east countries you have kings and a
great deal of the country is poor. You have people killing one
another for some tunnel in Israel.
My question is this: The Westerners in time of trouble leave to
go set up new forms of
government while Asia and the Middle East stayed at home. You
said they stayed at home to
work our their problems. I think they did not work out their
problems. I think they did not work
out anything. They have been killing each other in the name of
religion for thousands of years.
Can you please explain?
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