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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4649151" data-attributes="member: 54707">PP, I learned Raja Yoga from a master who was originally from Thailand but went to India to study. He came to the US and took me as his only student, for about 6 years. Other than him, I've got some Indian friends, Korean friends, and some Chinese friends, and a couple of buddies of mine married Japanese and Korean girls. One still lives in Japan but to tell you the truth, in my opinion, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea are the most Western of all Oriental societies. Maybe Taiwan too.I'd say from my experience that you bring up a good point, though I have some idea of what some Oriental would say about Westerners in general, and about modern Western culture in particular (many admire it in most respects, are disgusted with it in others, as am I to a degree), it would be hard for me to say how they would interpret Western culture and character historically speaking. I've discussed it from time to time and the ones I know really admire Knighthood, Chivalry, and Christianity as both a cultural and belief system, others are confused by Western religion. I've also seen a big interest in Western science and medicine and technology.But it would be hard for me to say how the Western character might be interpreted "collectively." I don't think it would be considered honorable in the same sense as Asian honor, though Knights and Paladins would be considered honorable. I think it would more be considered progressive and "intellectual" (the Wizard), monotheistic (the Cleric, though they would probably call a cleric a Priest), corrupt in a certain sense of the word (Thieves) and I'm not really sure how things like Bards and Druids (possibly Shinto-like?) would be interpreted. It would be interesting to see how they interpreted "barbarian," the "church," "kings and kingdoms," and "race" and other things like that.</blockquote>

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