Interesting, I hadn't thought of it that way before, but it makes sense.
I'm not even white, but I've felt for a while that Westerners have taken self criticality a bit too far, that they've become unable to see any goodness at all in their own history.
(Of course, there is also the opposite extreme of failing to see the flaws in your own history. But my social context tends to be the academics and the well educated, who tend the other way)
Oh, I think I missed that you were OP. About the end of that second paragraph... I didn't mean to imply that professors are blowhards. 😬 While I know many that are, I also know many that are absolute heroes.
Interesting, I hadn't thought of it that way before, but it makes sense.
I'm not even white, but I've felt for a while that Westerners have taken self criticality a bit too far, that they've become unable to see any goodness at all in their own history.
(Of course, there is also the opposite extreme of failing to see the flaws in your own history. But my social context tends to be the academics and the well educated, who tend the other way)