Is it ok to joke about Chinamen?

Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude, Asian-American, please.

You would assume Asians go on a lot of blind dates, since there are no surprises. 

Seriously, though, you remember my idea about the West and East being like the left and right brain, respectively. How languages like Japanese and Mandarin are pictorial. The West being more linear, literal, domineering, the East being more intuitive, holistic, feminine. In this scheme, you could see the Eastern Mediterranean as sort of like the corpus collosum, the center part of your brain that communicates between the hemispheres. There was actually a lot more Eastern stuff there in Jesus' time than people realize, the Jews are always harping on about how Jesus was a Jew, Jew this, Jew that, jewjewjewjewjew. But you have no idea what kind of teaching he could receive at that time, even pre-Socratic philosophy came from India. And Greek philosophy, at its core, is the same as the Hindu doctrine of moksha, liberation through austerities and experiential spiritual knowledge. That is what Jesus meant by being born again. It was what James Lindsay is crusading against, calling it gnosticism, but it's just standard Eastern stuff.

This extends to individualism, which is more pronounced in the West and especially America. I'm kind of a contrarian, my instinct is to go against the crowd on principle, which, I admit, is not the most endearing trait. There's an interesting place in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion where it says, "We have put them on the hobby-horse of collectivism, and the goyim have not had the sense to realize that God himself instituted individuality by making every creature unique." It's not the only bit of sound philosophy you can pull out of that book.