Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. - Arthur Erickson - Quotesmemo.com

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I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

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Arthur Erickson

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

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I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

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