| Chinese society v British society? | |
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| Feb 5, 2008 21:11 | #11   |
 | Dave, look at your national flag with the pattern covering the whole world. From positive point of view, you guys like to take adventures and explorations, which has been benefiting you guys in natural science, social science, technology since late 18th century. BTW.I am not flattering. |
| Feb 11, 2008 00:59 | #12 |
| I am with Apault. China was once based on a collectivist culture. Now, the country is more of capitalism. Western countries nickname China's system as Neo-capitalism: socialism with Chinese characteristics: aboundant greedy businessmen that exploited the poor under-paid workers are becoming more and more. The collectivist culture is on the decline in China. Altruistic deeds are dying out. |
| Feb 11, 2008 19:50 | #13 |
| I disagree with Leonardo and Apault. Although, Collectivism has somewhat declined in China, China is still a country based on collectivist culture rather than individualist culture. Compared with westerners, Chinese people are still more considerate than westerners. People cares much about others' (including the community) benefits. Community's benefits were put on a very high priority. Just take this winter's snow havoc for example, numerous altrustic people sacrified their chances to reunite with their family members in the Spring Festival to help the suffered people out of trouble in South China. This is what happened in a collectivist culture. |
| Feb 12, 2008 19:22 | #14 |
| Neo-liberalism emphasizes on personal achievement, introduced spinning society and changed economy in many ways. howerver, it makes poor stay poor, the middle poorer and the rich more richer... In individualistic culture, there existes collectivisim like several people are integrated into strong cohesive group for the purpose of security of common goal. |
| Feb 15, 2008 19:07 | #15 |
| I'm sorry you have such a poor opinion of westerners, Iceblue. When we have problems like the recent snow in China, it is my experience that people in all cultures/nations usually help each other. We still have a very strong attitude of responsibility to family and community. many peopLE give up a lot of time for their community but assisting with community childrens' activities like sport and youth clubs, others help the elderly by driving them to hospitals or delivering meals, others help in hospitals...and the list goes on and on. Equally, I see so much anti-social anti community behaviour in China - just look at the attitude to driving. 'Get out of my way I have a car!' By contrast, while driving on my current holiday in the UK, when I get to a crossroads and a car wants to enter from a sideroad, he waits, and drivers on the main road slow and wave him to enter. In 4 weeks driving, I haven't used my car horn once. I do not believe there is much difference between China and many other countries in how caring they are. There are some differences of detail and we could learn from each other for sure. On a ranking I most prefer to live in Australia, then China, then UK (mywhere I was brought up), and bottom of the list - ha, just read my other posts! |
| Feb 15, 2008 23:04 | #16 |
| '' do not believe there is much difference between China and many other countries in how caring they are. There are some differences of detail and we could learn from each other for sure. '' I agree with Paul on this and Paul is telling the truth what’s happening in Chinese society and western society. Collectivism is the effective way for human being to deal with natural disaster. From cultural prospective, it’s an arbitrary assertion that Chinese is collective other than individualistic. The source titled Chinese at work – individualism/collectivism presents one phase of this topic. http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/ |
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