In Defending a Moderate Concept of Cultural Equality

Saul Bellow is famously quoted as saying something like, ‘When the Zulus produce a Tolstoy we will read him’. This is taken as a quintessential statement of European arrogance, not just because Bellow is allegedly being de facto insensitive to the value of Zulu culture, but frequently also because it is seen to reflect a denial in principle of human equality