RE: Einstein exibit cancelled in China for merging philosophy/history with it
June 7, 2011 at 8:51 pm
(June 7, 2011 at 5:42 pm)Anymouse Wrote: China views science and history a bit differently than the West. Bern previously added a display about the Holocoust (why does the speller hit that?) and the Nazi Party when in Hong Kong, miffing the Communist government. So the Shanghai museum wanted to add Confucius, to balance the exhibit with a message of peace over the message of politics and war Bern wanted to add. Bern said they would rather cancel the entire exhibit than remove the information. China's short answer is they don't see why history and religion should be mixed up in a science display about Einstein, who received word of his Nobel Prize in Shanghai in 1931.Well, I'm not sure of the context of the Holocaust itself in the exhibit; I know Einstein left Germany because he feared for his life in Hitler's Germany, but considering that he left shortly after Hitler rose to power, long before the Holocaust could officially go past the phase of simple persecution, I'm not entirely sure just how it would fit in there. On the same token, I'm not sure if deleting it would make the exhibit any better.
Of, and it's spelled Holocaust, with an "a."
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