Why is there such a big difference between Chinese and Western civilizations?

1, the influence of different human rights ideas

Western human rights is centered on the individual, that is, humanistic. In China, the relative concept and practice is different from the people-oriented people-oriented, that is, the individual is included in the collective, so it is said that the people's rights (to the beginning of the 20th century has evolved into the rights of the nation), rather than human rights.

2. The influence of different national cultures

China is y influenced by traditional Confucianism, and the key lies in the phrase "humility, respect, trust, sensitivity and wisdom" of Confucius. Western culture, lies in a "competition" word, in dealing with personnel to their own first.

3. Influenced by the economic system

China's traditional economy is a typical self-sufficient natural economy. People are more peaceful and conservative. Because they depended on a piece of land to live for a lifetime, the culture was more introverted. Moreover, China's ancient civilization, which originated in the Great River Valley, is an agricultural civilization, and the "agricultural civilization character" has created an Oriental people who pay attention to ethics and morality, seek common ground and stability, and take "harmony as the most precious thing, and forbearance as the highest" as the principle of dealing with the world.

Western ancient Greek civilization, originated in the Aegean Sea coast, belonging to the marine civilization, and European farming is far less important than Chinese farming in ancient times, so the Europeans like to explore the outside world, the culture is more extroverted. And the western countries after the industrial revolution entered the industrial economy very early, "industrial civilization character" created the western people have a strong spirit of struggle and maintain their own interests of the legal consciousness, to independence, freedom and equality as the principle of the world.

4, by the geographical environment.

The closed continental geography makes the Chinese people's thinking is limited to the local, good at summarizing the lessons of the past, like "history as a mirror", and spatial awareness is weak. This kind of inward-looking thinking has led to the Chinese people's stable and quiet character, their lack of curiosity about new things, and their lack of interest in the unknown.

While most of the western countries are in the open ocean-type geographic environment, industry and commerce, navigation industry is developed, since the ancient Greek period there is a focus on the study of natural objects, to explore the mystery of nature's tradition. At the same time, the mountain winds and tsunamis and turbulence of the marine environment also constitute the personality of the Western nation that focuses on spatial expansion and forceful conquest.

5. The influence of different religious cultures

Western religion is absolute and exclusive, and the Western Church is a highly organized religious culture. Chinese religion, on the other hand, is relative and compatible.

Expanded Information

The West started relatively late in comparison with the East, but there are differences within them, for example, between Southern Europe and Northern Europe, Western Europe and Eastern Europe, and within Britain and Germany, however, the essential difference is undoubtedly the difference between Eastern and Western cultures.

And China is not without democracy, but its "three-dimensional democracy" is different from that of the West. What's more, within the imperial court, there were such practical constraints on imperial power as the ancestral system and the imperial historian, as well as the traditional practice that the emperor usually had to have a minister's report before he had a chance to approve it as an expression of the imperial "decree," which is a kind of horizontal separation of powers and control in modern political science.

These formal differences are due to different cultural and historical backgrounds. The essence and spirit of democracy should not be denied because of the differences in form.

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