This is interesting. It’s a Chinese view on “Western Barbarians” with particular emphasis on the English. I’m unsure if the original writing is ancient but this translation was first published in the West in 1875. The translators note emphasizes that it’s available in English for the first time, lending to the idea that the original text is much older.
What I found interesting is how they view this weird “new god” adopted by the Romans. They note that these barbarians caused the fall of Rome yet for some reason still took their religion.
INTERESTING when you realize that Rome sacked Jerusalem yet still adopted the god of the people they conquered.
That’s the opposite of what is supposed to happen. Usually the conqueror forces their religion on the people they’ve just defeated. The fact that it happened twice in succession is an odd coincidence. Makes you wonder who was really the victor?
Anyway, it’s just interesting to look at an ancient Chinese view of the West. One more point, all these liberal jackasses saying that Westerners were supremacists for viewing other cultures with curiosity and ignorance, if these dingbats looked at history more they would see that this was natural. The Chinese did it to the West, too.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62209
What I found interesting is how they view this weird “new god” adopted by the Romans. They note that these barbarians caused the fall of Rome yet for some reason still took their religion.
INTERESTING when you realize that Rome sacked Jerusalem yet still adopted the god of the people they conquered.
That’s the opposite of what is supposed to happen. Usually the conqueror forces their religion on the people they’ve just defeated. The fact that it happened twice in succession is an odd coincidence. Makes you wonder who was really the victor?
Anyway, it’s just interesting to look at an ancient Chinese view of the West. One more point, all these liberal jackasses saying that Westerners were supremacists for viewing other cultures with curiosity and ignorance, if these dingbats looked at history more they would see that this was natural. The Chinese did it to the West, too.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62209