"I complain of your cosmopolitanism. When you say you want all peoples to unite, you really mean that you want all peoples to unite to learn the tricks of your people. If the Bedouin Arab does not know how to read, some English missionary or schoolmaster must be sent to teach him to read, but no-one ever says: 'this school master does not know how to ride a camel: let us pay a Bedouin to teach him'. You say your civilisation will include all talents. Will it? Do you really mean to say that at the moment when the Eskimo has learnt to vote for a county council, you will have learnt to spear a walrus?"
G.K. Chesterton
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