Hi, Rosan,
Hope there was no misunderstanding here. I did not accuse you of being anti-
European. I was addressing the entire to state that many nations and cultures have
built the frameworks of scholarship and science along with European nations and
cultures. This is an important point to me, since much of what we see as "European"
science and scholarship began in Asia, Africa, and other places, contributed by
Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Ptolemaic Egryptians, Assyrians, and so on.
The specific debate on Bologna is European because the Bologna treaty is a
European treaty between and among the nations of the European Union.
I described the specific issue -- the Bologna treaty -- as European, and I offered
some examples to support my view that science and scholarship are not. Since I
didn't make a statement about the list as a community, I hope you won't mind if I
avoid an attempt to say what the list is or isn't.
Warm wishes,
Ken
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:59:44 +0200, Rosan Chow <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Ken
>
> i am NOT anti-europe. i am euro-centric, at least, when talking and thinking about
design.
>i don't see anything wrong about it. it is an 'accident'. unless i go to china or india or
>some other non-european countries, learn the language and immerse in cultural
practices, i
>don't think i can ever go beyond it. and i find it interesting that you don't seem to see
>that this list is euro-centric. what else do you think it is? and so what if it is?
>
>Rosan
>
>Ken Friedman wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Some of the notes on the list are definitely Eurocentric. The debate on the
Bologna
>> treaty is a European debate if ever there was one.
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