因为欧洲文明的统一努力失败了，所以相对主义思想学说占据上风，支撑欧洲文明以现在的形式存在的合法性与合理性。
首先是有了分裂的欧洲的现实存在，然后才有了支撑和符合这个存在的理论。政治多元化的现实在先，政治多元化的理论在后。
先有了分裂的存在，然后才有了分裂分制的思想和理论。这有点儿像我们常说的生产力经济基础决定上层建筑，而上层建筑反过来促进或制约生产力发展。
滑稽之处在于，欧洲人西方人想要把他们因失败而产生的理论反过来强加于成功了的中华文明
以下段落节选自亚洲时报在线文章【中华文明与犹太文明的共性】：
Tribal warfare is the bane of human society. During the 40,000 years before the dawn of civilization, some anthropologists estimate, two-fifths of males who survived infancy died in warfare. The great empires of the Near East and the West failed because they enslaved the peoples they conquered rather than integrate them. European Christianity offered a compromise: the ethnicities that occupied Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire would join a universal Church in the spirit, but keep their ethnic nature in the flesh. Ultimately the flesh overwhelmed the spirit, and ethnocentric nationalism provoked the terrible wars of the 20th century.
Chinese civilization offered a different model: it integrated innumerable ethnic minorities into a unified culture centered on a written language and literary tradition, and offered the opportunity for advancement to everyone who came under the umbrella of this culture. Unlike Rome, it did not enslave subject populations to work giant estates, but emphasized the extended family as the fundamental unit of society.
Unlike Christianity, where the unifying language of Europe (Latin) was understood by a tiny elite, Chinese culture propagated a unifying written language. Literacy in ancient China was extremely high in comparison to the ancient and medieval West, between 20% and 30% by most estimates. China still has 55 ethnic minorities and a wide variety of spoken languages.
......
It is instructive to contrast today's Europe with today's China. Europe has achieved a limited degree of unification without, however, overcoming national resistance to a unified government. China by contrast contains fifty-five distinct ethnic minorities and numerous spoken languages within a single political system. Despite the occasional eruption of separatist tendencies, China is in little danger of reverting to a loose confederation of ethnicities.
For all its great accomplishments, the European project of the past thousand years has failed. The greatest achievement of the West is the creation of the United States of America, which selected immigrants from all nations in a new, non-ethnic polity defined by a Constitution inspired to a great extent by ancient Israel.
When Christianity failed to overcome the residual tribalism of the West, its universalizing message was replaced by relativism. The reigning dogma in the secular West now states that every ethnicity is entitled to its own "narrative" and that all cultures are equally valid in their own terms. Relativism refuses to consider the obvious fact that some cultures succeed while others fail miserably; it insists on the absolute right of self-definition and self-termination for every tribe.
This post-Christian ideology motivates many attacks on China in the West, and justifies Western support for breakaway movements in Tibet, Xinjiang, and other Chinese provinces.
......The perverse logic ...... is used to condemn China's sovereignty over Xinjiang and Tibet, among other places. The supposed right of self-determination for "Uyghur culture" or "Tibetan culture" is opposed to China's historic sovereignty over those territories. If this argument were extended to its logical conclusion, the great accomplishment of Chinese civilization - its genius for integrating many ethnicities into a unifying culture - is a wicked form of imperial impression.
original article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-100114.html
首先是有了分裂的欧洲的现实存在，然后才有了支撑和符合这个存在的理论。政治多元化的现实在先，政治多元化的理论在后。
先有了分裂的存在，然后才有了分裂分制的思想和理论。这有点儿像我们常说的生产力经济基础决定上层建筑，而上层建筑反过来促进或制约生产力发展。
滑稽之处在于，欧洲人西方人想要把他们因失败而产生的理论反过来强加于成功了的中华文明
以下段落节选自亚洲时报在线文章【中华文明与犹太文明的共性】：
Tribal warfare is the bane of human society. During the 40,000 years before the dawn of civilization, some anthropologists estimate, two-fifths of males who survived infancy died in warfare. The great empires of the Near East and the West failed because they enslaved the peoples they conquered rather than integrate them. European Christianity offered a compromise: the ethnicities that occupied Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire would join a universal Church in the spirit, but keep their ethnic nature in the flesh. Ultimately the flesh overwhelmed the spirit, and ethnocentric nationalism provoked the terrible wars of the 20th century.
Chinese civilization offered a different model: it integrated innumerable ethnic minorities into a unified culture centered on a written language and literary tradition, and offered the opportunity for advancement to everyone who came under the umbrella of this culture. Unlike Rome, it did not enslave subject populations to work giant estates, but emphasized the extended family as the fundamental unit of society.
Unlike Christianity, where the unifying language of Europe (Latin) was understood by a tiny elite, Chinese culture propagated a unifying written language. Literacy in ancient China was extremely high in comparison to the ancient and medieval West, between 20% and 30% by most estimates. China still has 55 ethnic minorities and a wide variety of spoken languages.
......
It is instructive to contrast today's Europe with today's China. Europe has achieved a limited degree of unification without, however, overcoming national resistance to a unified government. China by contrast contains fifty-five distinct ethnic minorities and numerous spoken languages within a single political system. Despite the occasional eruption of separatist tendencies, China is in little danger of reverting to a loose confederation of ethnicities.
For all its great accomplishments, the European project of the past thousand years has failed. The greatest achievement of the West is the creation of the United States of America, which selected immigrants from all nations in a new, non-ethnic polity defined by a Constitution inspired to a great extent by ancient Israel.
When Christianity failed to overcome the residual tribalism of the West, its universalizing message was replaced by relativism. The reigning dogma in the secular West now states that every ethnicity is entitled to its own "narrative" and that all cultures are equally valid in their own terms. Relativism refuses to consider the obvious fact that some cultures succeed while others fail miserably; it insists on the absolute right of self-definition and self-termination for every tribe.
This post-Christian ideology motivates many attacks on China in the West, and justifies Western support for breakaway movements in Tibet, Xinjiang, and other Chinese provinces.
......The perverse logic ...... is used to condemn China's sovereignty over Xinjiang and Tibet, among other places. The supposed right of self-determination for "Uyghur culture" or "Tibetan culture" is opposed to China's historic sovereignty over those territories. If this argument were extended to its logical conclusion, the great accomplishment of Chinese civilization - its genius for integrating many ethnicities into a unifying culture - is a wicked form of imperial impression.
original article: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-100114.html
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