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"Brain
Tea" association:
- Considers all Sri Lankans
- Wishes to promote cultural exchange for mutual
enrichment
- Proposes research studies, ideas, that have to
be studied and discussed by the cultures to which they are
presented before they are accepted
The
association was created to favor knowledge exchange between
nations. No knowledge is absolute but through its worth and accuracy,
great things can be accomplished for Humanity. A knowledge is
even
more interesting when it is confronted to other view points, to
different critical thinking. It allows knowledge enrichment,
completion, rectification, or even its cancellation. Knowledge must
always be used against a moral and ethical judgment.
The encounter between two nations can be catastrophic. In that sense,
it is evident concerning colonialism, slavery, exploitation,
acculturation, submission, massacres ... This is a dark portrait, yes
...
But exchanges can be extremely rewarding. Some examples are exchange of
goods, exchange in culture and technologies ... If one can outgrow the
natural tendency to ethnocentrism (seeing another Society as a inferior
to
one's own) then numerous doors to fruitful exchange will open
widely.