Re: Enid Blyton and Frank Richards are Albert Schweitzer compared to Badlied. Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on December 14, 2022, 2:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Enid Blyton and Frank Richards are Albert Schweitzer compared to Badlied."
A foodstuff is not culture - particular recipes may be i guess. Yoga is not a foodstuff - us making our own version of this sort of practice, keeping the name and supposed heritage with totally different motivations and ideologies involved, and then selling it back to them as if they've got it wrong seems a bit rum (rum is that one? ). This isn't just with yoga, but ideas in hinduism and buddhism too - a lot of the early works that brought these ideas to the west, even when written by indians often seemed to bend over backwards to make them suitable for our culture, inserting dubious links to christianity etc (looking at you yogananda) - often losing some of apsects of the original ideas in the process. I'd rather the original form got to survive than the danger of it being replaced with a version we've had tweaked especially to suit the more powerful culture. Just to be clear this is not to argue against the usual desirable process of cultures cross-fertilising and hybridising to create new forms of culture - just that when the relationship in question is too one-sided, it stops being hybridisation and becomes parasitisation imo.
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