User talk:Kuo27

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PowderSmokeAndLeather: Say something once, why say it again?. 20:47, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your welcome! I hope I am formatting this correctly (I just read the talk page guidelines, for the record.)

Anyway - this is directed at all RationalWikians (correct terminology?) - I think I may be able to be of some help in working with others here on reducing the Western biases here (friendly disclaimer: This site is really great, but it can always be made better!). Hereon, I shall use the term "Western" to refer to strongly Greco-Roman-Judeo-Christian-based cultures, such as (traditionally, at least) Russia, France, the United States, Australia, (modern) Israel and probably South Africa too; I am not referring to most of Latin America (except a few places, like Quebec), due to the very strong influences of various Amerindian and West and Central African Peoples, and to a lesser extent the rest of the world, far more so than the USA, Australia, the UK or even New Zealand.

Now then, I would like to work on the following things: The slanted coverage (in my opinion, at least) towards Western pseudoscience and crankery, or pseudoscience and crankery that is particularly problematic in the Western world, as opposed to other cultural areas' nutjobs and wackos; what appears to me to be a focus on Western nutcases' and Western New Agey types' ideas about historical events, as opposed to what actually happened (such as the article on the Indus Valley Civilization, which talks in depth about modern ideas about a nonexistent nuclear war instead of the actual achievements of th Indus in sanitation, medicine, standardization, urban planning and quality of life, for example); and finally, various issues in articles relating to history, wherein it is typical (though by no means universal; the article on Ibn Sīnā) to not include or neglect the importance of non-Westerner's contributions, often phenomenally influential on the history of the West (such as Ibn āl-Haytham's invention of the scientific method or the downplay of the Chinese invention of printing).

With that said, I really like this site and would love to be of service!

Kuo27 (talk) 23:44, 24 December 2013 (UTC)