| On another occasion in the same Fair | | | | devils". They could not have done this |
| another man gave me a push. When I asked | | | | if they had met the good, the kindly |
| him the reason, he also was ashamed and | | | | sides of Western life. Therefore the one |
| stammered out an apology saying, "Why do | | | | point we ought to remember is that we |
| you dress that way?" The sympathies of | | | | should always try to see the duty of |
| these men were limited within the range | | | | others through their own eyes, and never |
| of their own language and their own | | | | judge the customs of other peoples by |
| fashion of dress. Much of the oppression | | | | our own standard. I am not the standard |
| of powerful nations on weaker ones is | | | | of the universe. I have to accommodate |
| caused by this prejudice. It dries up | | | | myself to the world, and not the world |
| their fellow - feeling for fellow men. | | | | to me. So we see that environments |
| That very man who asked me why I did not | | | | change the nature of our duties, and |
| dress as he did and wanted to ill-treat | | | | doing the duty which is ours at any |
| me because of my dress may have been a | | | | particular time is the best thing we can |
| very good man, a good father, and a good | | | | do in this world. Let us do that duty |
| citizen; but the kindliness of his | | | | which is ours by birth; and when we have |
| nature died out as soon as he saw a man | | | | done that, let us do the duty which is |
| in a different dress. Strangers are | | | | ours by our position in life and in |
| exploited in all countries, because they | | | | society. There is, however, one great |
| do not know how to defend themselves; | | | | danger in human nature, viz. that man |
| thus they carry home false impressions | | | | never examines himself. He thinks he is |
| of the peoples they have seen. Sailors, | | | | quite as fit to be on the throne as the |
| soldiers, and traders behave in foreign | | | | king. To get more information visit : |
| lands in very queer ways, although they | | | | Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 |
| would not dream of doing so in their own | | | | business consultant, Vish Writer is the |
| country; perhaps this is why the Chinese | | | | author of the Amazon No 1 bestseller, |
| call Europeans and Americans "foreign | | | | "The Joy of Becoming God". |