It is called ‘know your enemy’.
RE: It is called ‘know your enemy’.
Yep, in the meantime, our universities are busy trashing our heritage and ADMIRING the enemy.
Under Mao Tse Tung, China had a “cultural revolution” that destroyed its universities and sent academics (and many others) into exile to “learn from the peasants” in remote villages).
Now WE are having our own cultural revolution, as a Chinese acquaintance taunted me, complete with “struggle sessions” and “criticism and self-criticism” over supposed systemic racism. We are actually EMULATING what they did.
The irony is - As we burn down our own culture, China may become the last refuge of classical philology, Western philosophy, and classical music.