{"id":286972,"date":"2025-02-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=286972"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:51:54","slug":"barbarity-vs-civilization-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/02\/barbarity-vs-civilization-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarity vs Civilization [Redux?]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Costumes &amp; Mores(*) &#8211;&gt; Ring any bells?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barbarie-civilization-dejavus.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-286974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barbarie-civilization-dejavus-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barbarie-civilization-dejavus-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barbarie-civilization-dejavus-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barbarie-civilization-dejavus-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/barbarie-civilization-dejavus.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201c<em>Barbarie \u2013 Civilisation<\/em>\u201d<\/strong> is an illustration by Ren\u00e9 Georges Hermann-Paul, first published in 1899 in <em>Le Cri<\/em> <em>de Paris<\/em> magazine at the start of the Boxer Rebellion in China. It was accompanied by the following caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of \u201cBarbarity!\u2019 But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it\u2019s a necessary blow for civilization.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5><span class=\"BxUVEf ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">(*) Mores are the customs, norms, and behaviors that are acceptable to a society or social group&#8211;in this case, the Western so-called Civilization. (<em>TMS Editor<\/em>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of \u201cBarbarity!\u2019 But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it\u2019s a necessary blow for civilization.\u201d &#8211;> Costumes &#038; Mores &#8211; Ring any bells?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[244,433,1012,1675,70,2145],"class_list":["post-286972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-food-for-thought-editorial-cartoon","tag-france","tag-usa","tag-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286976,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286972\/revisions\/286976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}