Power breeds arrogance. In fact, a schoolyard bully who is larger and stronger than most is arrogant.
When I Googled Blogs on “American Arrogance”, there were about 400 thousand hits. Then I Googled “China Arrogance” and almost 112 thousand hits came back. The numbers change when Googling the rest of the Internet.
It would seem that many feel that the US and China are arrogant, and why not? After all, China and the US have the world’s largest economies and the most powerful military machines.
The Diplomat writes that China’s rising-power exuberance is becoming a problem, and the post is titled “China’s Dangerous Arrogance”.
About American arrogance, Mostly Water says, “American intervention in states without effective governments has been almost uniformly disastrous.”
Then Project Syndicate said, “Success breeds confidence, and rapid success produces arrogance. That, in a nutshell, is the problem that both Asia and the West face in China…”
The Eurasia Review writes, “That twenty years after the Soviet collapse, America reportedly has 702 overseas military bases in about 130 countries and another 6,000 bases in the US and its territories.… Do we really need to maintain that many US military bases abroad? …What is America doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? It’s called “nation building”. What business is it of America to be building other’s nations? It’s really none of their business. It’s nothing more than the arrogance of power.”
See Cultural Differences and the Ignorant American
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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