{"id":2987,"date":"2020-07-22T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/half-way-cultural-appropriation-2\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:06:13","slug":"half-way-cultural-appropriation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/half-way-cultural-appropriation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Way Cultural Appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">You appropriate our science and technology, why not then appropriate the values, virtues, attitudes, and behaviors that led to the science and technology?&#0160; Here are some of them: hard work, self-control, self-knowledge, deferral of gratification, focus, protracted study, objectivity, rational thinking, coherent speech, respect for legitimate authorities, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Why the half-way cultural appropriation? Go all the way, and you will benefit yourself enormously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">There is nothing &#39;white&#39; about the above values and virtues, attitudes and behaviors. After all, Asians implement them as well as Caucasians, if not better.&#0160;&#0160; They are normatively universal and good for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You appropriate our science and technology, why not then appropriate the values, virtues, attitudes, and behaviors that led to the science and technology?&#0160; Here are some of them: hard work, self-control, self-knowledge, deferral of gratification, focus, protracted study, objectivity, rational thinking, coherent speech, respect for legitimate authorities, and so on. Why the half-way cultural appropriation? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/half-way-cultural-appropriation-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half-Way Cultural Appropriation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}