Oh those crazy nuances

[Guest guest]

Z'ev, Alon,

 

I think we have to make a distinction between

what is Chinese by virtue of the fact of a

thousands of years long tradition of

transmission of medical lore and the

accident of birth.

 

Being born Chinese, raised and educated

in China, and all of the other things that

attend to having an ethnic identity as

Chinese have relatively little to do

with study and understanding of Chinese

medicine. It doesn't matter if one is

Chinese, American, Israeli, French,

Black, Yellow or Green. The chore of

studying Chinese medical knowledge is

more or less the same.

 

Those who happen to be Chinese probably

have a slight advantage of pre-exisiting

familiarity with the language and the

cultural context. But such familiarity

carries with it cultural baggage of its

own. Is it a net plus? Probably. But

that hardly matters, and it's certainly

not my point about the need to study

the language and the literature in order

to competently understand and apply the

medical theories.

 

for some reason, this post to which

Z'ev responds here somehow doesn't show

up in my message index. Was it removed?

 

Ken