| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The
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| EAST AND WEST, WHERE IS THE
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They also use
Greek philosophy and medicine as have the Christians. We could argue from their cultural
and religious forms that the Muslims and Europeans are both Westerners. Certainly the
Hindus see their religions in the same light. Westerners should stop lumping India, China
and the Middle East in this negative category of the East, which is mainly a way of
dismissing what happens in these countries as irrelevant. Westerners must learn to deal
with each of these cultures as they are, which is quite different, not just generically
Eastern.
The division of East and West is generally a one-sided affair, a barrier protecting Europe
and North American from outside influences, particularly those of religion, while they
spread their culture all over the world. However, we don't reject a peach because its
original home in China makes it an Eastern fruit. So too, knowledge and culture are things
that are universal. And many aspects of our culture today have come from quite diverse
places throughout the world. |
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