Another Short History of Linguistics (74)

This time, the Japanese are too hurry to get rid of the Chinese character without second thinking but a politic emotion.

During last few decades, some scholar were discussing on a book ‘Black Athena’

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/arts/martin-bernal-black-athena-scholar-dies-at-76.html?_r=0

Martin Bernal, whose three-volume work “Black Athena” ignited an academic debate by arguing that the African and Semitic lineage of Western civilization had been scrubbed from the record of ancient Greece by 18th- and 19th-century historians steeped in the racism of their times.

As: http://www.theafrican.com/Magazine/Athena/intro.htm

Said: “At the core of the debate were two questions: were the ancient Egyptians a Black African people, and to what extent was the civilization of ancient Greece indebted to learning borrowed or stolen from ancient Egypt.”

I believe that at least the idea of semantics of Aristotle was borrow from Egyptian.