Reply #91: Well, okay.

[Chan790]

Jackson denigrates Western culture as inferior to Japanese traditional culture, but I see how that could be interpreted as an extension of the "quaint exoticism" that western societies have imputed onto any culture that wasn't their own from time immemorial.

Likewise there are a number of Japanese, Korean and Chinese thinkers I could have named but the racism runs strong in them. You have to know that in the more-provincial parts of those nations it's still perfectly acceptable to hate other cultures to a degree that would astound many Westerners. Some Chinese have not forgotten what the Japanese did in WW II, nor have the Koreans. Likewise, there is a small but significant nationalism in parts of rural Japan that still believes in the cultural inferiority of their neighbors.