Everyone in my buddhist center and local groups is white and italian
>>216637709Around the 70s all of the old books about Protestantism and business were replaced by Zen/Orientalist business literature. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber was effectively replaced by things like Beginner Mind. Even Steve Jobs collected Shin Hanga paintings most new money people in tech/finance are orientalists, this Buddhist spirituality movement seems to be mostly a western phenomenon. The fact that it's treated more as a philosophy rather than a religion makes that obvious.