The Man and the Lion
A MAN and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon
began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in
strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a
statue carved in stone, which represented "a Lion strangled by a
Man." The traveler pointed to it and said: "See there! How strong
we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts." The
Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of you men. If we
Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed
under the paw of the Lion."
One story is good, till another is told.
After reading this Aesop's Fable, I was immediately reminded of a time while I was in Arkadelphia, an american asked me about Kung Fu movies: "Why asians are always the losing ones in the end?", not knowing much about kung fu movies, especially "American" ones, I had replied, "I don't think so...there are some..."
Of course, some thousand year old slave already had the perfect answer to this.