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impossiblewizardry ([personal profile] impossiblewizardry) wrote2019-01-01 08:07 am

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There’s this really specific feeling of, “jesus, that’s what you guys are appreciating from Western culture?” Like when you realize how influential Coldplay is in Taiwan.

I figure that’s how Asians feel when they see a Western philosopher writing “in our silly Western philosophy, we do this. But in enlightened Asian philosophy, they do that.” There’s a lot of Asian philosophers and I completely trust the kind of people who make statements like this to pick the ones that Asians feel kind of embarrassed about