The Western obstacle to human potential and human growth that cannot be recorded as western sourced and origin is, in some respects, necessary for human growth and human potential. Otherwise, there would be no checks and balances. General - Professor D'Yanga
From a simplistic perspective—probably an emotional one—if one is a person of colour or an Indigenous person, and an intelligent person at that, it can be very easy to look at academia from a Western vantage point and regard it as a kind of newcomer: Johnny-just-come, Johnny-come-lately, the baby of the family. One might look at Western academia and think that it is a baby that refuses to acknowledge, or is simply devoid of, any serious body of data that is globally holistic and not exclusively Greco-Roman in its pronunciation, sourcing, announcement, or validation; data that does not, in rudimentary terms, validate and overvalue Western peoples and the Western way of understanding the world. It is easy to look at it and think, yes, this is what this culture is, or this is what academia looks like from this particular perspective. Sometimes, one might even become emotional or annoyed when one possesses what one considers to be correct, genuine knowledge that does not necessarily have t...