“ Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past. ”
I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful China-experts whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.
Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.
The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.
