New-York tribune., 1900-07-09
WHY ASIA HATES EUROPE.
THE ANTAGONIST ONE OF REVOLT AGAINST
THE CALM SUPERIORITY OF THE
WHITE INVADER
From The Spectator.

No one now questions. we fancy. the truth of ths
dislike Of Asia for Europe The facts Of history
Asiatic. however much benefited by contact with
the European. has always in the end revolted
against him. and has always until this century
succeeded in casting him out Greek or Roman
or Northern. ne has never been able 70 endure his
propinquity and has always. sometimes after
centuries Of warfare. driven him away; The Dis
has killed out the respect which men feel for
barbarian at last merged himself in Rome, the
brown semi-barbaria expelled Rome beyond his
fHebman a. With the approval Of the masses Of his
countrymen, ali of whom acknowledged that the
Engshman brought Prosperity and law law, ~ Is not not
its cause Why did the Asiatic absorb the
Roman or {a STacSh t Ts6eSu 5eS or t6e Egyp m the
Arab? The answer is sometimes that the dislike
TaGed before history began sometimes that 4 Is
a Consequence Of the prejudice created oy dlneT-
Compatible ideals; it is never quite satisfactory
bc +o II WI What caused the struggIe wherefore the
prejudice why are not me laeals reeoncleG -, a. 4,
Neither will our answer oe SATISFACTORY; Lor " Is
inconnplete vet perhaps il is worth stating, both
because so : fa5 ar ofen a5 n ogyeTooKed The 2sac de
tests the European, in the nrst place, because OF
hatred like that OF the French proletariat for the
5Tang Asiatics without Claiming an insuera6e
superiority He always asserts that he is the
IDEAS and his only. have any merit or validity No
matter what the issue reilsio9 or SyInz@9n b9 S S
is right, and not those among whom ne comes, and
ali the effect of the most contemptuous insolence
In is in fact, followed by acts, for the European
always claims the first place; always holds that
he is the officer and the Asiatfc the private; al
ways if rules and, If he cannot, bears him.
self as one whose Cearest rights are un1Ustly de-
MED. The European subject holds himself the
equal in some sense the superior. or the ASlaIlc
King That is natural. say his comrades, but the
assertion. even when IL is true does not make the
claim the pleasanter The Asiatic sees that he has
a civilization OF his own, a philosophy or his own,
spises all without completely understanding any
The democratic temper, 70 speak, IS reused
against the arstocrat. and after years. sometimes
centuries. of endurance. engenderS a hatred which
- soOthed only by blood, and even when blood
has been shed is not entirely sOOthed away.
We all think the hatred most unjust, and IL
often il is always unwise, but IL is not
unnatural II a foreign race superior TO ourselves
came among with the same pretensiOns. the
same Indifference to our thoughts and feelings
and ways. the same claim 10 all posts OF di-
rection and all other advantages conferred by
caste. should gradually hate them. too It
would be useless 70 talk OF ability. useless as
IL is 10 tell Germans Frenchmen that the Jews
monOpoliZe the places requiring intellect only be-
cause they possess it the fact when acknowledged
would bring solaCe. and the order would ulti-
mately be: Go away, or We viii kill you out. for
be rid of you Is essential not only to com
that this Is the permanent position OF ASiatics
Europeans, or wonder that in the end the
numerous race makes some dead heave BY which
the less numerous Is either destroyed driven
more or less ignominiOUs retreat2 T"he ASiattc
loses frghttuNy oy every such uphe1val, some
times receding back for centuries the path OF
civilization but he RECEIVERS peace