Re: Eliot Spitzer, antismoking leader, self-destructs

"Alistair" <alistair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> A casual observer may draw (perhaps wrongly) the conclusion that their
> is a distinct pro-western bias in awarding Nobel prizes. Seeing as
> there are in excess of 1 billion Indians and 1200 million Chinese do
> the awards made to nationals of those two countries accurately reflect
> their proportion of the world's population or do they exhibit some
> cultural bias? BTW, it is known that papers not published in English
> receive far less publicity, distribution and credit than the
> equivalent paper republished in English has and would.

How many Chinese inventions have you been using lately? Was your
automobile, or TV or computer, or microwave, or the Internet, or any
ohther recent (say last 150 years) invention made by the Chinese?
Recent Eastern cultures have not been conducive to innovation and
invention. Even as intelligent and industrious as the Japanese are,
they produce relatively few innovative inventions. Most of their
creative talent goes into refining inventions made elsewhere. As you
yourself pointed out, ancient cultures in Persia and China were well
ahead of anything in the west. It's clearly not genetic, but cultural.
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