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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (53)1/9/2001 12:26:14 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 1112
 
Most cultural encounters are between cultures of unequal resources, and the transmission is primarily in one direction. The Mediterranean world became Roman, and exoticism merely spiced the mix. Japan took over Chinese cultural forms (ideograms, Buddhism, brush painting), and gave little in return. Nor is it merely a matter of power. The Germanic tribes that eventually overran the Western Empire were semi- Romanized and living on the borders of the Empire. The architects of the Meiji Restoration purposefully sought to adopt Western ways out of a sense of inferiority. The Mongols overran China, but China did not become Mongol, the Mongols became Chinese. The Russian court became utterly Francophile and Westernizing after Peter the Great. For the contact to be truly mutually stimulative, both sides have to have a lot to offer, as Rome and Greece did when they encountered each other. That is a hard condition to achieve, isn't it?
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