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Why is there no concept like 'superhero' in Chinese culture?

A superhero is someone who has superpowers that normal people don't have, someone who can single-handedly take on a group of bad guys, and they do what is right. Many teenagers in the United States have imagined a superhero coming to their rescue when they are in trouble. Typical superhero images in the U.S. are Superman, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, etc. Why don't we have these superhero images in China?

We emphasize that all people are equal

In our culture, if a Chinese person has the ability to fly like Captain America, or if a person can take on an army single-handedly like the Hulk, or if a person can fly like Spiderman, then he can't be defined as a human being. Then he can not be defined as a person but become a god, the traditional culture is defined by these, you have this ability, is no longer a person but beyond the human god, become a god should have their own place and circle of life, can not be like the United States, superheroes also mix in the ordinary people all day long.

Foreign countries emphasize individualism

Foreign countries have a lot of times emphasized individualism and personal independence. We emphasize group, family and social relationships. There are very few foreigners who don't marry and live with their families as adults, and they always emphasize their own abilities. We emphasize helping each other, and the collective power is greater than the individual. That's why individual heroism is over-emphasized, and superheroes emerge, and when they become superheroes they re-emphasize the role of the individual in the collective. We start out as interactions, and after we become gods we have to detach from the collective!

Honestly in our culture, superheroes are generally unassuming and relatively speaking we place more emphasis on people with superpowers, and we incarnate people with those powers to live forever, and revere them more. Like the dragons in our country, people want them to be free and fly freely in their domain!