Who is Superior?
OST of us are full of unthinking prejudices about the Chinese. We are quite unaware of the abysmal depth of our ignorance about this great race. They all look much alike to us because they all have black hair and brown eyes; and we never can ‘remember their funny names. We are
prone to adopt an attitude of jocular superiority, blissfully ignorant as we are that, to the cultured Chinese, with a thousand years and more of civilisation behind him, we appear as crude upstarts. In the interests of international understanding it would do us all good to read Pearl Buck’s books about China. And here is one of those rare cases when the medicine that is
good for us is pleasant to take, provided, as I warned vou that you are not too squeamish-‘"A
Few Minutes with Women Novelists ’’-
"ec Pearl
Buck," by
Margaret
Johnston
, 2YA, February 22.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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152Who is Superior? New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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