Thorsten Pattberg

“ The analytical-based, deductive West increases its diversity, tendency for devolution and multiculturalism and is thus profiting from Eastern ‘overproduction’ of human capital that is required to keep Western culture breathing, while the integration-based East increases its ethnic dominance and geopolitical reach, forcing ever greater levels of peace, tolerance and harmoniousness upon the West. ”

“ Does this new 21st century existential ‘angst’ resembles the old pessimistic sorrows of an Oswald Spengler or an Arnold Toynbee, who successfully summarized ‘angst’ their The Decline of the West (1918) and Civilization on Trial and the World and the West (1958) ? ”

“ The demographic changes in Europe are irreversible, and the former feelings of Western superiority – the analytical mind, the linear approach to time and history, the soul of the conqueror, the deductive ways – over the time will proportionally decrease in favor of a newly felt Eastern superiority – the intuitive mind, the holistic approach to time and entangled history, the soul of the sage, the inductive ways. ”

“ Although the Caucasian population in the U.S.A., Britain, Germany and France declined in relation to most other great Asian nations, these countries assimilated quite well the mass-migration from East to West. On the contrary, the West was able to profit from its newly won diversity, calling it multiculturalism, the only minor problem being that of successful integration. ”

“ As a matter of perception, till today, the Western ways are universally associated with ‘war’, ‘aggression”, and ‘exclusiveness’, while the Eastern ways are associated with ‘peace’, ‘tranquility’, and ‘inclusiveness’; notwithstanding both hemispheres showing the tendencies to project their own psychological outlook onto the other. For the vast majority of Americans and Europeans, Asia is a place for all those fanatics, dictators, terrorists, and immature cultures. ”

“ During the next few decades of reconstructing Europe, all major Eastern cultures, often driven by political utopian dreams, increased their population so dramatically as if to prove Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) wrong:
中国人口众多是一件极大的好事。再增加多少倍人口也完全有办法,这办法就是生产. The massive population of China is our greatest good. Even a further increase of several times the population is entirely possible, possible through productivity. ”

“ For food they are seeking, children they fain would beget, feeding them all as they can. Traveler, mark this well, and when thou art home, do thou likewise! More can no mortal effect, work with what ardor he will. ”

“ The cultural and economic penalty for not recognizing East-Asian talent is immense, and unsurprisingly in this century we have witnessed in particular the anglophone world recruiting Chinese students and immigrants in unprecedented numbers. In 2005, 65,000 Chinese and 75,000 Indians studied in the US; 60,000 and 20,000 in Britain (IIE, 2006; People Daily, 2006/04/05) . For comparison, only 6,800 US students came to China, most of them American ethnic Chinese or ‘hai gui’ (海龟, sea turtles) (Chinadaily, 2005/12/20) . ”

“ The new spiritual conquerors’, with their Eastern religions, Eastern values, Eastern world views, and their inductive ways demand for more power and influence in their host countries of choice and they are lobbied by approximately three billion other Indians, Chinese, Muslims, South-East Asians etc. While Europe and the USA are volunteering to ‘transform’ their indigenous cultures, China, India, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. ”

“ With the decline of Europe during the Great War, the multiethnic USA survived as the only counterweight to the overwhelmingly racial homogeneous countries of the East - Han in China 92%, Japanese in Nippon 99%, Koreans in Korea 99% and the Soviet empire of 450 million people. ”

“ In Berlin, it is not uncommon for a white German woman to be labeled ‘snobbish’ or even plain ‘racist’ just because she chooses a white German partner, instead of, to show her tolerance and, yes, common-sense, choosing a non-white spouse. ”

“ In the long term, however, their parents, companies, and governments will have to make a painful but crucial financial decision: There is nothing complicated about finance. It is based on old people lending to young people. [...] Never before in human history, though, has a new generation simply failed to appear. ”

“ In 2007, in just one of its 22 provinces, Henan, China saw a birth-rate of roughly 1,2 million Chinese babies, some 500,000 more than y that same year, let alone that 28% of the ‘German babies’ were of non-German ethnic background (destasis, 2006) . Tens of thousand million babies is a post-modern sin, even for a proud and superior civilization like China. So, Henan local authorities, reminded of their outrageous high birthrates of 1,6 million annually during the 90’s, had to vow to Beijing not to exceed the province’s projected population of 110 millions before 2020 (Chinadaily, 2008/04/20) . ”

“ The non-integrated, spiritual Muslims in Germany, Austria or the Netherlands, who still feel as second-class citizens. as a minority are not alone in Europe (Times, 2008/07/27; taz, 2008/02/12) . In Britain, France, Spain, Italy too, most of their Muslim, Asian or East-Asian counterparts (may it be Turks, Algerians, Chinese, Sikhs etc.) – who will anyway represent 53% of the European population by 2100 – still report a hard time to adjust to the – from their perspective – very limited way of Western thinking. ”