Thank you Jeff Brown, Matt Ehret & Quan le for all your insightful, experienced & researched reflections on China. Quan Le making reference to China's mentioned the longer translation of China, what I could make out for: 'Zhong guo' ('Central State', 'Middle Kingdom') + 'Ni Cho hun gua' (Spelling???) or together the Commonwealth of the peoples of the splendid central civilization. So I now understand Quan Le's referenced to eastern peoples as 'centralized' thinkers. 'Centralized' in today's western colonial fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') oligarch owned & commanded society, where people feel as powerless pawns, has negative connotations & repercussions.
However from my Chinese, First Nation & 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') friends over these past 50 years, would I be able to add the term 'fractal' ('faction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') or even 'culturally' centralized? What I've heard from Chinese friends is the concept of quite localized autonomous empowerment, in local human 'economic' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') organizational units such as in decentralized work, the village & today even the Apartment building as a place of circular economy.
PARALLEL EXAMPLE: The story of Jacques Cartier's ~1535) voyage down the St-Lawrence river, where he asks people the name of the nation he is in? Cartier's 1st Nation locutors respond 'Kanata' which from the Mohawk translates as 'Village' or 'We are people of the village' or more precisely, 'We are people of the ~!00 (50-150) person economic unit which forms the backbone of our livelihood & society'. 'Kanata' became the name for 'Canada'.
Cartier was in the confederate territory of the five then six nation 'Haudenosaunee' ('People of the extended-rafter' aka 'Welcome') Confederacy, which the Mohawk nation are part of, referring to the same ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex or Longhouse. Around the world all indigenous peoples organized circular Relational economy within the ~100 person Multihome (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Its interesting that today 70% of people live in Multihomes with an average of 32 dwelling-units or ~100 people. Unfortunately most have had our memory institutionally erased as to how to collaborate & empower each person & collectively. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
Thank you Jeff Brown, Matt Ehret & Quan le for all your insightful, experienced & researched reflections on China. Quan Le making reference to China's mentioned the longer translation of China, what I could make out for: 'Zhong guo' ('Central State', 'Middle Kingdom') + 'Ni Cho hun gua' (Spelling???) or together the Commonwealth of the peoples of the splendid central civilization. So I now understand Quan Le's referenced to eastern peoples as 'centralized' thinkers. 'Centralized' in today's western colonial fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') oligarch owned & commanded society, where people feel as powerless pawns, has negative connotations & repercussions.
However from my Chinese, First Nation & 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') friends over these past 50 years, would I be able to add the term 'fractal' ('faction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') or even 'culturally' centralized? What I've heard from Chinese friends is the concept of quite localized autonomous empowerment, in local human 'economic' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') organizational units such as in decentralized work, the village & today even the Apartment building as a place of circular economy.
PARALLEL EXAMPLE: The story of Jacques Cartier's ~1535) voyage down the St-Lawrence river, where he asks people the name of the nation he is in? Cartier's 1st Nation locutors respond 'Kanata' which from the Mohawk translates as 'Village' or 'We are people of the village' or more precisely, 'We are people of the ~!00 (50-150) person economic unit which forms the backbone of our livelihood & society'. 'Kanata' became the name for 'Canada'.
Cartier was in the confederate territory of the five then six nation 'Haudenosaunee' ('People of the extended-rafter' aka 'Welcome') Confederacy, which the Mohawk nation are part of, referring to the same ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex or Longhouse. Around the world all indigenous peoples organized circular Relational economy within the ~100 person Multihome (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Its interesting that today 70% of people live in Multihomes with an average of 32 dwelling-units or ~100 people. Unfortunately most have had our memory institutionally erased as to how to collaborate & empower each person & collectively. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing