what an absolute lunatic. What exactly his positing "Latino-americanism" is if it isn't a branch of western civilization? Even china is best understood in most contexts as a westernized country, but even in their intellectual inheritance, Becoming a scholar in China was to study lengthy debates preserved from centuries ago. the arguments of the losing side were preserved, and could even be adopted as policy centuries later. In Europe, there is no trustworthy extant description of many historically important groups beliefs. Not that this couldn't happen in China, they could write just as much slander, but consider The discourse on Salt and Steel stayed a touchstone for millenium or thatFan Zhen's 5th century argument for atheism survives despite imperial displeasure and mandatory criticism in 75 pamphlets. There is great intellectual animosity between Buddhism and Taoism, yet both coexisted and survive to the present day. The west having a unique ability to self criticize when China transformed from an absolutist monarchy with a cult to the divine emporter to a communist dictatorship in less than 4 decades is absurd. even if one lacked any specific knowledge of China whatsoever, a serious person still wouldn't make a claim that europe was uniquely capable of self criticism. if such a though occurred to them, they would use their power of self-criticism to consider "Self-criticism ought to be an ability inherent to all cultures, it must only be my own ignorance that I feel there is some disparity."