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by ClumsyPilot
22 days ago
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I am pointing out the whole ‘losing face’ thing exists in the west too. If you cause certain people to lose face, you will get China-like response. In fact it’s a core conservative value and you can observe it in interactions with police - if a victim embarrasses the police they will prosecute the victim instead of the perpetrator |
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Yes, in the sense that a bicycle and a Formula F1 are both wheeled modes of transportation.
I never said that western cultures don't have the concept of pride - just that it's categorically different in eastern cultures.
This is both extremely well academically supported[1] and immediately obvious to anyone who has nontrivial exposure to most eastern cultures (including, specifically, Chinese culture).
Furthermore, the punishment of Chelsea manning is clearly irrelevant for multiple different reasons:
1. Specific instances are not reflective of a general pattern
2. Manning and Assange were instances of leakers of classified information, which is a separate category from merely "losing face"
3. There's a consistent pattern of the US government prosecuting leakers of classified information[2] even when there's zero media exposure, which conclusively disproves the "its just saving face" theory
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)#Re...
[2] https://www.justice.gov/news/press-releases?search_api_fullt...