Historians describe the English (more than the British) as unusually individualist and market-minded since medieval times, working for wages and trading property.
Today, writers who cling to an individualist, petty-bourgeois stand cannot truly serve the masses of revolutionary workers, peasants and soldiers. Their interest is mainly focused on the small number of petty-bourgeois intellectuals.
Xiangzi in Camel Xiangzi by Laoshe is a typical image of individualist in modern China .
Some scholars pave the way for the collective property right on folk literature by borrowing the structuralist literature theory and criticizing the individualist authorship notion.
But unfortunately, we're still in the old-school, individualist mind-set of wearing different clothes from everyone else.
WThe concept of "the use of the useless" in life put forward by Master Zhuang has been wrongly regarded by scholars in history as the passive, reclusive and individualist philosophy of life.
The theory that "weapons decide everything", the purely military viewpoint, a bureaucratic style of work divorced from the masses, individualist thinking, and the like -- all these are bourgeois influences in our ranks.
But extensive development can also cause conflicts, particularly in an individualist, competitive society.
Studies have shown average conformity rates in collectivist cultures of between 25% and 58% whereas average conformity in individualist cultures is between 14% and 39%.
Compared with real collectivists, he is a liberal as well as an individualist, which predetermines he is wandering in a dilemma between freedom and despotism, individuality and collectivity.
