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Jiang argues that Chinese writing resists transliteration and therefore makes foreign names and concepts harder to import and popularize quickly, which increases the burden of learning from the outside world.
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"...it is mainly burdensome stressful to learn new things from the outside world also um when you try because"
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"you can't transliterate the language it's very hard to bring in foreign concepts so for example the word cinema is translated as Dane in..."
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"...a self -sufficient nation that has absolutely no interest in the outside world. Japan is complete opposite in that it is an island and..."
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"...portal, okay? Within the house, there's this divinity, but in the outside world, there's only darkness and mystery. Okay, so God is within your..."
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"...to the prisoners and tells them, hey, I've been to the outside world. I've been to the sunlight. I know what truth is. And..."
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"...conservative and very isolationist. China is just not interested in the outside world. Why? Because it's focused on maintaining control over its peasantry, okay?"
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"...too much internal chaos. China just is not interested in the outside world. So China, for its history, has both been conservative, doesn't like..."
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