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I love this paragraph:

> The event promised to bring together the best of eastern culture (it took place among ancient carvings at the world heritage site of Al-’Ula on a historic trade route) with the best of western culture (it featured a performance from the dance duo Chainsmokers).

This is like Ghandi's reply:

"What do you think of Western Civilization?"

"It would be a very good idea."

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To be fair, you could also look at this as eastern culture being a bunch of exhibits in a museum, and western culture being an active process and also the organizing principle of the exchange taking place at all.

1. Too late to edit, so let me just correct my typo here: It's spelled "Gandhi".

2. Also, he's kind of like Mark Twain or Albert Einstein in that lots of quotes are attributed to him that he might not have actually said, and this might be one of them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/1lbplg/gandhi_was_a...

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