Monday, October 24, 2011

The Closed Western Minds

I cracked open the spine of New Asian Hemisphere and started reading. Prof Kishore Mahbubani has an interesting style. His views are back by annecdotes from news and published papers around the world. The examples he brought up are very solid and perspectives from the East is clear. The Western viewed their economic superiority as they owned the world and everything they do and believed in must be right. God is with them as articulated by their leaders publicly. The West has given the world seven pillars that bring economic prosperity. However, as the rest of the world prospers, the West is getting discomfort of the rising of powers of others. They are denying and still insist on their position of superiority.

Let's see how the future unfolds.

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