Jiang begins answering why Russians are different by saying the problem is the West, whose thinking derives from British thinking and tends to be narrower than Russian thinking.
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Russian Thinking
Jiang begins answering why Russians are different by saying the problem is the West, whose thinking derives from British thinking and tends to be narrower than Russian thinking.
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Jiang says Russians believe in mysticism, spirituality, prophets, and unknown forces that cannot be reduced to empirical knowledge.
Jiang contrasts British logic, where every step must connect, with Russian intuition, where one can jump and imagine without strict logic.
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"...there are three distinct characteristics of British thinking that's different from Russian thinking, okay? All right. Let's look at British philosophy versus Russian philosophy,..."
"And to understand the difference, what you do is you read British literature and compare it with Russian literature, okay? And then British literature,..."
"So there are forces we don't understand. There are individuals who are prophets, who are sent to us by God. We can never know..."
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