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Comment on the Chinese-Western Centralism of Cultural Centrism

If China wants to develop theoretical science, it must learn from the West again. In this case, it is also insincere not to mention the Western Center. Western centralism shows the cultural superiority of westerners. Only in the west can science get typical development, and only in the west can democracy, capitalism, modernization, rationality and so on (these concepts are both descriptive words and valuable words) be fully developed. On the contrary, non-western societies are usually characterized by absolutism, irrationality, ignorance and witchcraft. Western centralism shows contempt for "non-China" non-Western culture. It is intolerable for those who directly express their cultural superiority and despise non-Westerners. What we generally call western centralism is such a straightforward attitude. However, such an outspoken, frank and provocative western centralism (like Hegel) is only a skin of western centralism. The true western centralism is a concept-set western centralism. The west and the east are arranged at different conceptual levels, and these concepts do not represent the most perfect characteristics of western culture. In contrast to reason, we are in the stage of sleeping or undeveloped, while others are in all stages of consciousness or infiltration; Take science as an example. We are in the experience stage and others are in the theory stage. Democracy, freedom, human rights and so on can also be compared. Therefore, western centralism is a natural expression when westerners apply their values and world outlook to the eastern society. It essentially embodies western viewpoints or positions. It is defined by the way western culture looks at the world or the conceptual structure of this culture. Using this set of conceptual tools and adopting a western position is itself western centralism.