"It is odd: America is one of the most open societies in the world, yet when it comes to listening to the rest of the world or understanding the views of others, America instead resembles a closed society."
On our own land, we still struggle with understanding other cultures and accepting them into our lives and our invented realms of the "American world." On a global scale, then, I think it is only fitting that we still have trouble listening and understanding the rest of the world.
One thing I found very interesting was China's rendition of the word "crisis", the combination of the Chinese characters for "danger" and "opportunity", while the English definition doesn't hint at the positivity of opportunity in these moments. The Chinese interpretation may also explain why "each time a new problem surfaces, China looks for the advantage in it, assuming that it must adapt to the world, not shape the world as it wishes."
Although Mahbubabi's criticism of America's faulty geopolitical and decision-making competence was accurate in many ways, I believe we make some decisions that proud citizens agree with and think are very necessary.
On our own land, we still struggle with understanding other cultures and accepting them into our lives and our invented realms of the "American world." On a global scale, then, I think it is only fitting that we still have trouble listening and understanding the rest of the world.
One thing I found very interesting was China's rendition of the word "crisis", the combination of the Chinese characters for "danger" and "opportunity", while the English definition doesn't hint at the positivity of opportunity in these moments. The Chinese interpretation may also explain why "each time a new problem surfaces, China looks for the advantage in it, assuming that it must adapt to the world, not shape the world as it wishes."
Although Mahbubabi's criticism of America's faulty geopolitical and decision-making competence was accurate in many ways, I believe we make some decisions that proud citizens agree with and think are very necessary.
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