[Buddha-l] "Western Self, Asian Other"

[Bankei]

Hello Alex.

I just read that short article you referred to and did not feel it came
across as 'patronizing contempt' at all.

Thanks for the link

Bankei

2010/1/2 Alex Wilding <alex at chagchen.org>

> I never did read "Prisoners of Shangri-La, so I can't comment directly.
> There is, however, a reason why I decided not to invest that much of my
> short life in it: the patronizing contempt that Lopez shows for his
> audience
> in the piece "7 things you didn't know about Tibet"
> (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493105.html).
> I am not a totally ignorant, stupid twerp, and am not drawn to reading a
> book by an author who assumes that I am.
>
> All the best
> Alex Wilding
> Blog: Dang Zang
>
>
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