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

[Steven Rhodes]

curt wrote:

> But don't get me wrong - the guy could write a good book, that's for 
> sure!

You might want to track down Mark Twain's animadversions about JFC.

Steven Rhodes

> Richard P. Hayes wrote:
>
>> Of course, not everything is due to colonization patterns. It always
>> intrigues me to discover that there are German scholars who find North
>> American native peoples fascinating. Why? But then again, why not? It
>> could be that there are some human enterprise things that are just
>> intrinsically interesting to human beings everywhere. (Sorry to sound so
>> un-post-modern.)
>>
>>  
>>
> 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.
>
> Cooper's novels, in turn, represent one of the more insidiously 
> fascinating aspects of cultural imperialism - romanticizing the very 
> people you are doing your level best to wipe off the face of the 
> earth. But don't get me wrong - the guy could write a good book, 
> that's for sure!
>
> - Curt
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