RE: Ethnocentrism
January 30, 2022 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2022 at 3:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
the first mover advantage that the west had enjoyed for last 2-3 centuries made western civilization central to human progress and shape the world and its perception on our terms.
the first mover advantage is fading fast. after it has faded, the west’s destiny would become ever more dominated by the fact that all of the west combined, and by no means it is unified, is half as big as either china or India, by itself.
and the west may try to postpone it, but almost certainly it can’t stop it. and unseemly methods to temporarily postpone it, such as ethnocentrism, will only increase its marginalization when it arrives. what the west needs to do is to make the path to giving it some relevance in a world dominated by cultures with a much longer history of superiority than the west.
ethnocentrism will be somewhat akin to cultural suicide.
the first mover advantage is fading fast. after it has faded, the west’s destiny would become ever more dominated by the fact that all of the west combined, and by no means it is unified, is half as big as either china or India, by itself.
and the west may try to postpone it, but almost certainly it can’t stop it. and unseemly methods to temporarily postpone it, such as ethnocentrism, will only increase its marginalization when it arrives. what the west needs to do is to make the path to giving it some relevance in a world dominated by cultures with a much longer history of superiority than the west.
ethnocentrism will be somewhat akin to cultural suicide.
