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A Modernization of Simple Tradition

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    It is enlightening to see a point of view in "Into Thin Air":

    The many changes in Khumbu culture are not entirely a good thing, but I've never heard a Sherpa lament about itWesterners lament the loss of the simple and picturesque life of Khumbu, which is a bit  The taste of the benefactor.  Most of the people living in this remote village do not want to be cut off from modern society or human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to become specimens in an anthropological museum.

    This is somewhat similar to a point of view of Lu Xun I saw some time ago:

    Among foreigners, those who do not know but praise are forgivable; those who occupy a high position and are pampered, so they are deceived, but are ignorant of spirituality and praise are also forgivable.  But there are two other kinds. One is that the inferior species of the Chinese are only worthy of the original appearance, so they deliberately praise the old things in China.  One is to hope that people in the world are different so as to increase my interest in traveling. If you go to China to see braids, Japan to see clogs, and Goryeo to see bamboo hats, if the clothes are the same, it will be boring, because it opposes the Europeanization of Asia.  These people are detestable.  (Volume 1 p228)

    So when we sigh for an ancient nation to make corresponding changes in order to keep up with the times, we should first think about why we sigh and whether we have enough qualifications to sigh.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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