They Don't Think Like Us

[DanaC]

Can a society that educates its young men by a process of rote recitation produce critically thinking, technically educated men to build and operate a modern economy? Can you even teach elementary concepts of maintenance to a people who believe that anything that happens is inshalla (As God wills it)? To compete, or even just survive in the world they must become more like us and less like themselves - and they know this.

As far as I know they only teach Theological subjects that way. There are plenty of Middle and Near Eastern students over in the Uk doing postgrads and stuff. They have their equivalent technical and medical experts. The Mullahs might not be much for the technical revolution and some regions and countries are less well developed...but let's not start homogenizing them. Look how different America and England is, and yet we share a language, a basic religious philosphy, a large amount of our political philosophy (democratic institutions etc) capitalist intentions and mechanisms, historical orgins and both cultures are underpinned with Anglo-Saxon, individualist sensibilities and similar lawsets.

If we can share all that and yet be so different, why not the same for Eastern cultures?