Individualism vs. Collectivism
that changing one's political party might be considered an act of disloyalty. It would be a betrayal to the group,
Collectivism
The Disloyalty can have more importance to Political Parties. They are a group with believes and goals in common. They trying to be unit in those that they want to achieve for benefit of their own country. Changing one's Political Party can cause a lack of respect for your personal compromise with the Party.
Individualism
The members of one party to search for the feeling of the unit. If they have misunderstandings, they try to resolve them, notwithstanding there are events that can cause the changing one's Political Party. Thinking that the actions of a party going in opposition to their principles and goals invite to question if Is necessary to follow inside of a Party?
This happened in the 1980s-Japan.
There was a high school baseball team in Japan. Baseball is big in Japan. And they won a championship. They won some sort of championship. And they were out celebrating, and they ended up drinking.
In the end, some of the baseball players got in this car and drove drunk. The driver was drunk. Well, they had an automobile accident.
Every one of those high school baseball players, even the ones who were not driving, only one was driving, of course. Every one of the players in that car lost his license for life.
Collectivism
A group oriented society, again, they had a responsibility for everyone.
In a group oriented society, they might have a little less tolerance for things that could hurt other members of the group big time.
Japan is a country that to have this culture. They have less tolerance and more disposition to share the guilt in the group.
Individualism
In an individualistic oriented society they'd say, "Boy just got a little drunk. He isn’t going to do that no more. He just funning around. That's what he doing. Having fun."
In an individualistic oriented society, they'll have tolerance for individual mistakes that may cause tragedy for the group and just hope it doesn't happen again.
Taking responsibility for our actions, thinking about how they can tp impact our society can become the way to work with different cultures.
The Myth of Chinese Super Schools
Yong Zhao’s Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.
But, he says, it has the worst education system in the world because those test scores are purchased by sacrificing creativity, divergent thinking, originality, and individualism
His book is a timely warning that we should not seek to emulate Shanghai, whose scores reflect a Confucian tradition of rote learning that is thousands of years old.
A system called keju lasted for thirteen hundred years, until 1905, when it was abolished by the emperor of the Qing dynasty. This system maintained Chinese civilization by requiring knowledge of the Confucian classics, based on memorization and writing about current affairs.
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Zhao quotes Zheng Yefu, a professor at Peking University and the author of a popular book in 2013 titled The Pathology of Chinese Education, who wrote:
No one, after 12 years of Chinese education, has any chance to receive a Nobel prize, even if he or she went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford or Cambridge for college…. Out of the one billion people who have been educated in Mainland China since 1949, there has been no Nobel prize winner….
This forcefully testifies [to] the power of education in destroying creativity on behalf of the [Chinese] society.
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Chinese students regularly win any competition that depends on test performance. Where they fall short is creativity, originality, divergence from authority. The admirers of Chinese test scores never point out that what makes it the “best” education system is also what makes it the worst education system
China is accustomed to hierarchy and ranking, and the education system delivers both. As the only path to success, students are ranked according to their performance, and very few will win the race.
Schools exist to prepare for the tests
“no new content is taught…. A large proportion of publications for children in China are practice test papers.”
Parents pay for a year’s living expenses in addition to tuition.
The workload is three times what it is in the typical Chinese school.
To cultivate new talents, we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children’s passions, and fosters their social- emotional development.
Zhao envisions schools where students produce books, videos, and art, where they are encouraged to explore and experiment. He imagines ways of teaching by which the individual strengths of every student are developed, not under pressure, but by their intrinsic motivation.
The article presented shows us to China being a society oriented to collectivism. This orientation reduces creativity and originally of students, whose experiment the lack of freedom in their opinions and the searching for a new knowledge.
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