由Jocelyn Eikenburg

想象做刑期-或更坏-正因为您与触犯的党有关。

如果您想要了解多远集体主义在中国进来，比lianzuo看没有进一步-或集体责任。 在中国的2,000年封建历史中-从一直BC至少7世纪到20世纪的交接-人们由协会是有罪的。 即，如果您是血亲亲戚或接近的商务伙伴有罪，您会需要一个秋天与他们一起。 这 中国日报文章提到它作为有连贯性的家庭-和我们在现代感觉，二者之一不意味“停留”。

有趣的事是，责任在中国文化今天仍然有举行的小组-，即使它被认为一少许不合理。

当证明一个原稿为我的丈夫的前研究生院顾问时，我被提醒了关于此。 他想审查集体和可表达的责任Piaget的想法与中国青少年，看他们的心理反应通过一定数量的困境。 他们中的一个包括一个情况，在类欺诈的某人，老师发现它，但没人想坦白到他们的差错，迫使老师惩罚整个类。

What was interesting was that, even though a majority of the adolescents considered collective punishment unjust, most showed a tendency to take responsibility for behavior in order to avoid punishment to the collective, and this tendency increased with age.

When you consider that Chinese culture emphasizes the group or family over the individual, it’s not surprising individuals would “sacrifice” for the good of the whole. Maintain the group harmony is a top priority. Plus, given that Confucianism stresses obedience to elders/leaders, it’s important to respect authority, even if the outcome is unpleasant.

From the authority’s point of view, it’s understandable they’d want to punish the entire lot. In China — even today as self-responsibility is gaining more popularity — people would, in general, rather not be the one in charge, but rather spread the responsibility around. It’s safer that way, right? As long as everyone holds a little responsibility, no one gets sacked from their job. If you’ve ever dealt with any bureaucracy, you know what I mean.

I think of the one time I almost “lost” my entire life savings in a snafu involving electronic bank transfers from one bank to another (not for the uninitiated, that’s for sure). I was caught in a ping-pong match between the banks as to who was not responsible for the mistake. Later on, I discovered it was a name input mistake — obviously an electronic, and not human, error.

Yeah, right.

Jocelyn Eikenburg, The Wu Way