The Thesis Behind the Dialogues
Nov 26th, 2011 by sarahkeller
Tea was discovered in China approximately five thousand years ago and people have benefitted from its healthy qualities, traded it amongst themselves, and cultivated it to perfection. Unfortunately with perfection comes greed, and imperialists began to exploit tea’s healthy qualities. How the qualities of tea are interpreted has depended on the culture of the people drinking it, but it was always been used as a sort of medicine. Tea has evolved from a medicine in China, to a social stimulant in Victorian Britain (when people weren’t told of its “traditional” uses), to a healthy lifestyle choice in modern North America. Trade has influenced the evolution of tea, but it has always been seen as a form of medicine.
(please don’t mind the lack of Indian/African/SriLankan involvement in this thesis, and the blatant generalizations… Twas early in my studies U__U”)