there is no reason why culture should be regarded as having borders that cannot be traversed. On the contrary, the whole history of culture is one of sharing, borrowing, imitating, and admiring. Who would have it any other way? Only, it seems, a movement almost entirely centered in the West itself that believes—or claims to believe—that the West alone should not be admired and must not be allowed to admire in turn. This belief is not just factually wrong. It is morally wrong: an error that not only would rob the West of its own culture but would rob the rest of the world of sharing in it.
