[America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat by Wu Tingfang]@TWC D-Link book
America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat

CHAPTER 12
21/33

Man alone has made differences between man and man, and the yellow man is no whit inferior to the white people in intelligence.
During the Russo-Japan War was it not the yellow race that displayed the superior intelligence?
I am sometimes almost tempted to say that Asia will have to civilize the West over again.

I am not bitter or sarcastic, but I do contend that there are yet many things that the white races have to learn from their colored brethren.

In India, in China, and in Japan there are institutions which have a stability unknown outside Asia.

Religion has apparently little influence on Western civilization; it is the corner-stone of society in all Asiatic civilizations.

The result is that the colored races place morality in the place assigned by their more practical white confreres to economic propositions.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books