When the West wants everyone to understand themselves from the West's perspective, the West shows of it's lameness...

"Even in its praise of 'extraordinary cultural achievements by other civilisations,' the narcissism of the West seeks only to find in other cultures and civilisations what distinguishes the West from the rest of the world, and continually expects the others to respond to its narcissistic demand for the acknowledgement of its distinction."

Naoki Sakai, Translation & Subjectivity, quoted in "The Calm Beauty of Japan at Almost the Speed of Sound: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly," by Michael Bourdaghs

PS MICHAEL BOURDAGHS IS MY TEACHER, HE IS SO WONDERFUL, I LOVE HIM

pps I want to read the Sakai book really badly now.

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I believe the phrase is "ethno-centric as hell."

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