The New York Times - DEC. 3, 2014
AMERICANS
and Europeans stand out from the rest of the world for our sense of
ourselves as individuals. We like to think of ourselves as unique,
autonomous, self-motivated, self-made. As the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed, this is a peculiar idea.
People
in the rest of the world are more likely to understand themselves as
interwoven with other people — as interdependent, not independent. In
such social worlds, your goal is to fit in and adjust yourself to
others, not to stand out. People imagine themselves as part of a larger
whole — threads in a web, not lone horsemen on the frontier. In America,
we say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. In Japan, people say
that the nail that stands up gets hammered down.
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