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Status: The bucking bronco and I.
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We Westerners have a completely different relationship between people and authority than the Chinese have.
The question seems theoretical. In reality, however, it is very concrete.
The Chinese perceive the individual as part of the whole. The existence of the individual also descends from the community.
Conversely, we consider the whole as the sum of each individual part.
It is on the individual that our idea of people is constituted, which is nothing but the set of our individualities.
We have not Confucianism.
This has social and political consequences.