not that they'd say it in so many words...

[the_grynne]

To get a feel for what is so right and so, so wrong about Sinocentrism, at least that of my parents' generation (although, admittedly, I have no proof that the columnist is Chinese), just read this piece by Splenger (Asia Times Online), American Idolatry:

The Beautiful is not the Good. The Good is sui generis, independent of any beauty devised by

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[so_spiffed]

I tried reading the Bible, once.

[the_grynne]

From the very beginning?

I remember a time when I would read it for fun. When I was...7-10?

[so_spiffed]

Ja, from the beginning. Although I tended to skip over all those family lines/ancestry...