Pattberg meets Chomsky at Harvard Kennedy School, April 2010

Meet Noam Chomsky, the master of public intellectualism, who is also the founder of modern linguistics. Here at Harvard Kennedy School, April 2010:

Pattberg with Chomsky at Harvard Kennedy School

Pattberg visits Isfahan in Iran

Pattberg at Imam Mosque at Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan

My Iran Talks come to an end. Last day with Ahmadreza Doostdar from CISSC to Isfahan. Here I am sitting in the front court of the gargantuan Imam Mosque at Naghsh-i Jahan Square in the early foggy morning hours of Dec 06, 2012. Altogether we visited 5 great cultural centers of Persian/Iranian heritage. Magnificent.

The Frontiers of Language Imperialism

Thorsten Pattberg: What is Language Imperialism and How Cultures should compete for their Terminologies; Interview on Corbett Report by James Corbett.

TOKYO/BEIJING - In this exclusive interview we will talk about: Shengren, Wenming, Junzi, Daxue, Emperors, Deutungshoheit, and many more foreign concepts and terminology, and how translation of a foreign culture is the destruction of that culture.

I argue that academic imperialism is wide-spread and that the majority of Western scholars deliberately employ Western biblical and philosophical terminologies for original Eastern concepts, thus making the latter unrecognizable, distorting those countries' socio-cultural originality: China, in Western history books, becomes a China without Chinese and so on.

I have written extensively and consistently about this topic, for example in Asia Times, Global Research, China Daily, German Times, Korea Herald, and Japan Times.

James Corbett in Japan

James Corbett is an investigative journalist, activist, and the host and producer of the Corbett Report based in Japan.