Russell Sherman wrote: > >From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World > >Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:51:50 +0200 > > > >Steve Sloan II wrote: > > > > > "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" wrote: > > > > > > > > ARAB / ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS > > > > > 19.6% of World's Population > > > > > 1.2 billion Muslims > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > > JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS > > > > > 0.2% OF WORLDS POPULATION > > > > > 14.1 Million Jews > > > > > > > > I wonder what the use of this set of statistics is, anyway. > > > > It looks like it was compiled by someone who (wrongfully) > > > > wanted to "prove" that Jews are superior to Arabs/Muslims. > > > > > > It doesn't prove that Jews are superior to Arabs/Muslims, but > > > it certainly suggests something about the current states (and > > > values) of their cultures. > > > >Yeah, who has the best lobbyists and who is most interested in a prize > >instituted by a western organisation that is highly valued in the west. I > >mean, there is that claim that it is the most prestigious prize in the > >"world" but I'm not so sure if all the world is included in that > >mentioning. Are there Japaneese scollars who won that prize? I do know for > >a fact that in certain areas they do some really groundbreaking work that > >hardly gets a mention in western research literature just because of > >language barriers. I can imagine that the same holds for Arabs. > > > >Sonja > > > > A good point... in the sciences I think less so than in the arts. In the > arts, the nobel prize appeals to a western paradigm of thought. There's > nothing wrong about that, necessarily, but remember this is about who > contributes the most to the western paradigm. People who see the world > differently will be hard-pressed to win.
In sciences it is mostly the language and in the arts it is what appeals to the mostly western audience that makes them fairly discriminatory and not really representative of the world achievements. The prize for peace however seems to be fairly liberal or is it the political agenda that makes this price lose some of its prestigeousness..... Well it does seem an awfull many times that the peace price goes to those points of the globe were a Western subset seem to have a large interest in changing the current way of government. Hmmm. Coincidence? Sonja _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
