[Buddha-l] Re:American Mahayana/British Theravada?

[Robert Morrison]

Curt wtote:

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German interest, scholarly and otherwise, in Native Americans is 
traceable to the wild popularity of James Fennimore Cooper's novels, 
which were actually received more enthusiastically by German readers 
than they were at first by his fellow countrymen - who were, after all, 
still basically a bunch of British snobs who had never heard of this 
Cooper fellow.
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For what its worth, German interest in cowboy and Indian novels was started
by a 19th cent. German writer called Karl May.  He wrote tons of them and
was extremely popular. Hitler is said to have devoured his books (perhaps he
picked up some ideas from them!).

Robert Morrison