I was shocked by this very fact – that after going through thick and thin, so to speak, they will not stick together in a joint pursuit of freedom. If this were a Chinese movie I kind of knew what the ending would have been. In the Chinese movie, I knew then as I know now that at least one, if not all three, of them would want them all to go the same route. I even know the words they’ll use as a rallying call. “If we die, let’s die together!”
It smacks a bit of cowardice but that’s the way it is. Just call it valor with Chinese characteristics.
Anyways, this contrast clearly demonstrates – at least it demonstrated for me then – that America is more of an individualistic society than China is.
Put another way, and to use the term of our discussion today, the Chinese may by and large have a stronger herd instinct than Americans do, for better or worse.
For better or worse, the herd instinct is what it is.
Here are media examples:
1. A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological warfare – but it is. Shopkeepers know that filling a store with the aroma of freshly baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than they had intended. Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell faster than cheaper but less visible competitors. Now researchers are investigating how “swarm intelligence” (that is, how ants, bees or any social animal, including humans, behave in a crowd) can be used to influence what people buy.
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