The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all. - Thorsten J. Pattberg
I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful "China-experts" whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies. - Thorsten J. Pattberg
Science Magazine wouldn't in a dream think about publishing a single Chinese term. Chinese words and brands must be suppressed, crushed even, hold back at all costs. - Thorsten J. Pattberg
Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past. - Thorsten J. Pattberg
The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter. - Thorsten J. Pattberg
Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home. - Thorsten J. Pattberg