The Vietnamese, he says, are ignorant, the lot of them. ‘And when they are not ignorant they’re stupid.  For example, they know, they’re learnt, that wiring systems need to be earthed.  But will they earth their bloddy systems?  Never!  Aid programmes are simply a waste of every body’s time and money.  The government keeps half the money and gives the rest to local People’s Committees which use it to build themselves nice new homes.  And that wouldn’t be so bad if they really built themselves nice new homes.  But they don’t.  Rather they build themselves nasty new homes which in a few years’ time will fall down, and then they’ll have to waste more aid money building themselves mores nasty new homes.  Give them any equipment and the chance are it’ll be sold off as scrap.  The keep their old equipment going, but even so they don’t look after it. So they waste all their  bloddy time on repairs which should never have been necessary in the first place.  But then it’s a filthy country, so bloddy squalor is the only thing they recognize.  Except a racket.  When it comes to a racket the Vietnamese are geniuses to a man.  Show me a racket that doesn’t exist in this country and I’ll show you how to turn cement into gold.’

Wolseley and Campbell, of ‘Exploring Journalism’ on their definition of the ‘educated’ person.

‘The educated man (person) enjoys the free and open encounter with new ideas and new facts in his search for truth, and qualifies himself (their self) to gather, verify, evaluate, and present ideas and facts with insight and imagination as well as with accuracy and objectivity.’

‘The educated man (person) solves his problems independently or with professional help of his choice, relying upon the scientific method-vitalized by critical and creative thinking-and disregarding bias, expediency, and opposition.’

‘The educated man (person) understands and appreciates his (their) environment—natural, economic, social, political, and cultural—and conserves its resources and safeguards the conditions indispensable to the stability and continuity of a free society.’

‘The educated man (person) shares fully and loyalty in the life of his home, school, community, and nation, accepting full responsibility as a free man in a free republic to advance freedom and oppose reaction beyond as well as within our boundaries.’

Without these media, they says, ’there could be no satisfactory free and open encounter with new ideas and new facts in the search for truth.  Because social attitudes and social action are based on what men (people) understand and know about current ideas, events, and conflicts, the citizens of every free society should know about the scope, services, operations, limitations, and responsibility of the press.’

Backman, of “Asian Eclipse”
‘Dispite many claims to the contrary, egocentricity (a form of individualistic marked behavour) is a marked features of Asian society. It’s just that the focus of the selfishness is the ‘family-minded rather than social-minded: a form of magnified selfishness.’

And on the Confucian precepts of ‘Insiders and   Outsiders.’ 

‘No where else does the divide between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsider’ carry so much importance as in Asia.  By way of analogy, Americans and Australians, when driving on their country roads late at night, tend automatically to dim their headlights so as to not to blind an oncoming driver.  Neither drivers knows who the other driver is, and even if they saw each other again, they wouldn’t know it.  There are no relationship between them and yet both, in this small instance, look out for each other.  In Asia, passing drivers too have no relationship with each other.  But even in many Asian cities, particularly in South-East Asia, local drivers drive around at night with their headlights on high beam, uncaring of the fact that they are causing physical discomfort and danger to each other.  But then, why should they care? They are, after all. Strangers.’

David Suzuki
In an interview with The Age’s Good Weekend magazine, Suzuki, the eminent Japanese Canadian ‘eco-evanglelist’ admits that he hates the fact that he looks Asian: “I have these slitty eyes and I’m a Jap.”  Citing the pain and rejection caused because of WWII.  “For years , when I was a teenager, I was trying to save up for an operation to have my eyes enlarged and dye my hair.”  He added.

The English Dictionary
In the English dictionary we find the word ‘Tartar,’ a noun, to mean a vicious-tempered person, difficult to deal with and in the same dictionary we find the same word, ‘Tatar’ or ‘Tartar,’  also a noun, to mean a “member of Mongoloid (European classification of the ‘Asian’ race) who established powerful state in Central Asia in the 13th century.”  Substitute the word ‘Tartar’  with the word ‘English’ and you’ll get my point. 
      J.lam