This is correct... It's pizza-as-understood-by-Americans that was invented locally, exported to Italy, reinvented, and then reimported. Multiple translocations and transformations.https://twitter.com/asymmetric/status/1218578880480542721?s=20 …
Interesting, I didn’t know about this! I have come across many instances (personally and in reading) of Western Buddhism being imported into various Asian contexts, due to the indigenous variety having become unavailable, obsolete, or dysfunctional
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In China it would be the cultural revolution.
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This might be natural, to search for more 'authentic' is normative. To me the concept of 'authentic' seems colonialist :) That "lets digest a culture and find whats 'real' (note: 'realist' ontology) and then make a product of it", hipster consumer culture is latest incarnation.
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Yeah, Chinese learning about Daoism from reading Thoreau translated using Daoist terminology. And Mark Twain in translation had a huge impact on politics humor and literature in early 20th Century China.
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