> >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >> In short, Said obscures the origin of Orientalism by falsely assimilating
> >> the world before capitalism (including ancient Greece!) to our modern world.
> >
> >One feature of eurocentrism (in many or most of its manifestations) is
> >the inclusion of ancient Greece and Rome in "Europe." Europe (the
> >Europe which is a creation of capitalism) in a sense "colonized" those
> >civilizations after the fact, a manufacturing of geneology captured
> >in such words as "Kaiser" and "Tsar." Someone some day may be
> >able to write a long book on this theme, taking as their central text
> >the near 70 years of the comic strip Prince Valiant.
> >
> >Carrol
>
> Hasn't it always been obvious to everyone that western civilization is an
Sure Brad, but isn't that the edifice off of which most civilization is made, western or not?
Steve