Western colonial powers understood the Orient through a combination of ridicule and a search for exoticism, and launched wars and conquest through occupation and seizure. This, he says sadly, has led to hundreds of years of fractures, distortions, and malformations in Asian culture.
他感嘆，西方殖民強權以嘲諷和獵奇的態度認識東方，又以占領與掠奪引發了戰爭與征服，使東方文化在數百年的歷史中產生斷層、扭曲與變形。