Nobody said anything about them being backward.
--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Percival Myers <permaceaem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Normally I would agree with Alan Rudy that exposure to
> other cultures
> via the usual method of traveling abroad is beneficial and
> for a
> number of reasons, but in this case I must object. Most
> Americans (and
> Chinese) were held to be backwards provincials, farmers
> with no
> outside ken (in the specific case of the Chinese) due to a
> failure to
> travel "outside the country."