Encountering an alien culture can justify active hatred over automatic respect

Evidence

When you come across an alien culture you must not automatically respect it. You must sometimes pay it the compliment of hating it. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 96

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 96
• XREF: connects to: Interpersonal colonial hostility mirrors opposing stances on European pretension; Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body; Hate must be cultivated and performed, not merely felt (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14