07-05-2007, 01:44 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Jul 5 2007, 10:03 AM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Jul 5 2007, 10:03 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The dubious faux-scholarship in the west which occupies itself with finding silly little 'similarities' between the Mayan and Indian civilisation and then uses it to propound that Indians did something to give rise to Mayan civilisation should be given no credence. - America's idea of a set of 'United States' comes from the long-extant union/confederacy of several of North America's native American Nations....
...What the idea of America owes to the original Americans is profound, amazing. So many a good thing derives from that wholesome source of native American traditional society and civilisation.
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It seems that many western 'scholars' are most reluctant to credit the Indian or other ancient non-western civilization for any good in the western civilization, even when there is ample evidence to suggest that these older civlizations might have been responsible for many of the discoveries and inventions originally credited to the western civilization. Yet, they are ever so ready, and most generous, to credit the Indian civlization, or any other ancient non-western civlization, for any of the accomplishments or even the mere existience of the other ancient non-western civilization (well admittedly, they have come a long way from crediting everything good in non-western civilization to the western civilization - so at least there has been some improvement, albeit slight, in the western academia). Much of the western ''scientific'' quest remains driven by Eurocentrism.
...What the idea of America owes to the original Americans is profound, amazing. So many a good thing derives from that wholesome source of native American traditional society and civilisation.
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It seems that many western 'scholars' are most reluctant to credit the Indian or other ancient non-western civilization for any good in the western civilization, even when there is ample evidence to suggest that these older civlizations might have been responsible for many of the discoveries and inventions originally credited to the western civilization. Yet, they are ever so ready, and most generous, to credit the Indian civlization, or any other ancient non-western civlization, for any of the accomplishments or even the mere existience of the other ancient non-western civilization (well admittedly, they have come a long way from crediting everything good in non-western civilization to the western civilization - so at least there has been some improvement, albeit slight, in the western academia). Much of the western ''scientific'' quest remains driven by Eurocentrism.