"Back in childhood I knew that China was a country that was on the other side of Uruguay could get there if you had the patience to dig a deep well.
Then something learned from world history, but world history was, and remains, the history of Europe. The rest of the world lay, lay, in darkness. China too. Little or no know the past of a nation that invented almost everything.
I read with surprise and admiration because he did not recall more than four or five of inventions, fundamental to the development of mankind, we had the talent of the Chinese people.
I think they deserve our homage and admiration. I hope that next time, when I came across a Chinese citizen, be able to recall some of the inventions of its people and that this meeting will serve me to reflect on my ignorance and prejudice acquired odd.
Alcalá de Henares, July 4, 2009 Pictures of Franziska
Silk was born there five thousand years ago.
Before anyone discovered and cultivated Chinese tea.
were the first to extract salt from deep wells and oil and gas use in their kitchens and in their lamps.
They created iron plows and harvesters light transport, threshing and harvesters, two thousand years before the English mechanized agriculture.
invented the compass eleven hundred years before European ships began to use it.
thousand years before the Germans discovered that water mills were able to power their furnaces of iron and steel.
1900 years ago invented paper.
They printed books six centuries before Gutenberg, and two centuries before him used movable type in printing.
1200 years ago invented gunpowder and a century later the barrel.
hundred years ago who invented silk spinning machines with coils moved to pedal, the Italians copied to two centuries of backwardness.
also invented the wheel, the wheel, acupuncture, china, football, playing cards, the magic lantern, fireworks, kite, paper money, the mechanical clock, the seismograph, lacquer, phosphorescent paint, fishing reels, suspension bridge, the truck, umbrella, fan, stirrup, horseshoe, key, toothbrush and other trifles.
Text taken from the book "Mirrors" by Eduardo Galeano. "
I read with surprise and admiration because he did not recall more than four or five of inventions, fundamental to the development of mankind, we had the talent of the Chinese people.
I think they deserve our homage and admiration. I hope that next time, when I came across a Chinese citizen, be able to recall some of the inventions of its people and that this meeting will serve me to reflect on my ignorance and prejudice acquired odd.
Alcalá de Henares, July 4, 2009 Pictures of Franziska
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