Comparison between Chinese and American traditional values

Comparison between Chinese and American traditional values

American individual freedom & self-reliance equality of opportunity & competition material wealth & hard work

China Self-improvement, family management, rule of the country, and unify the world Moral principals as the bond of interpersonal relationship and social order Yi &Li relations Ancient tendency and egalitarianism

Individual freedom & self-reliance The Mayflower,1620 Declaration of Independence, 1776 the Constitution,1789 --the divorce religion from government But …e.g. 18-20 independence of the young

Equality of opportunity & competition The meaning of equality: the equal chance to compete not the equality of people Competition: a fair play winners / losers

Material wealth & hard work

+Persistent effort

= successGoing from rags to riches

Materialism!!

Yi &Li relations 义重于利 君子喻于义，小人喻 于利 文革

Ancient tendency and egalitarianism 不患寡而患不均