Comments on: Comparative religion http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/05/comparative-religion/ The China History Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: robin d gill http://www.froginawell.net/china/2008/05/comparative-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-110826 robin d gill Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:08:54 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/?p=435#comment-110826 Child did not "come up with" the long list, she just gathered up the hoary stereotypes that would be acceptable to reviewers who were familiar with them andring true with her readers --- the stereotypes repeated for centuries since the 16c jesuits wrote about buddhist and catholic similarities as a trick of the devil and soon after the protestants took up the same as proof catholics were not purely xtian as they were , , , Thoreau has Irish as pretty piggy and his description of the children reminds me of equally well-intentioned but still a bit creepy (to us) descriptions of piccaninies (sp?). . . But, so saying, your point re maybe protestants are the odd ones is good and one of the types of arguements some of us used to debate national stereotypes (mostly usanian vs japanese) in the 80's. As a type of rhetoric it is indeed interesting. 敬愚 Child did not “come up with” the long list, she just gathered up the hoary stereotypes that would be acceptable to reviewers who were familiar with them andring true with her readers — the stereotypes repeated for centuries since the 16c jesuits wrote about buddhist and catholic similarities as a trick of the devil and soon after the protestants took up the same as proof catholics were not purely xtian as they were , , , Thoreau has Irish as pretty piggy and his description of the children reminds me of equally well-intentioned but still a bit creepy (to us) descriptions of piccaninies (sp?). . .

But, so saying, your point re maybe protestants are the odd ones is good and one of the types of arguements some of us used to debate national stereotypes (mostly usanian vs japanese) in the 80′s. As a type of rhetoric it is indeed interesting.

敬愚

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