China

[fitzgerald12]

"The manner in which cultures become aware of other cultures and the extent to which persons in one culture insert elements of their own culture into their understanding of others can nowhere be better illustrated than by noting the Western failure to understand the basic nature of the Chinese world view. Modern Europeans and Americans have insisted on making the unexamined and, as it turns out, quite unsupportable assumption that all people <...> have regarded the cosmos and the human race as the products of a creator external to them. Assuming fundamental analogy as a fact, Westerners in translating Chinese texts have simply relied on falsely analoguous expressions from our culture and have read them mechanically into the Chinese texts, perhaps satysfying themselves with the "sense" that they make in the way they echo our Western predilections.

Frederick W.Mote
"Intellectual foundations of China".