"Chew, devour the Good , and the spit out the bad"

I have been reading "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" lately and I have been enjoying the book so far. I have a few more pages to go before I finish up this first book before the second book arrive. There is thought that I have in mind and I wish to share it online.

After staying in Malaysia for more than a year, I noticed that Asian people are less interested in studying foreign history other than their Asian history while they were amazed by the many "out of the world" accomplishments of the West today. This is not a diss but I am sure the some Asian know this Chinese proverb, "知己知彼，百战百胜" which stands for "if you know your enemies well, you will never lose a fight".

History is a good source of information to discover the development of a culture and to understand some of the crucial elements that defines a culture's success or a complete failure by looking at the many crucial events that happened in the course of their history. Of course, we can't deny that "His-story" could be made up by the many writes that was hired by rich folks to glorify their own family agendas. However, we can't deny the importance of foreign history if the Asians were to be able to compete with their western counterparts in this new millennium. As we all know, "competition drives innovation", if the Asians could put more effort in studying western history like their western counterpart did, I am sure it will not only make a more knowledgeable global citizens out of the Asians, it will also help to provide more capable competitors like the Japanese that West respects and fear in this new millennium.

In sum, I am just urging Asians(I am an Asian myself) to put some resources to encourage their next generation to study foreign history in depth since it will not only allow our children to learn and to grow in a more different path than their forefathers, I am sure they will be able to recreate themselves by establishing themselves as a more capable competitors of the West.