In chapter One is a historical sketch of ancient contrast China and ancient Greece. Credit ancient Greece with the development of the idea of personal agency. the author has support from many students of both ancient and modern cultures. According to Nisbett, Ancient Chinese represent a specific version of a cultural pattern of another: The Chinese believe in and acted on the idea of collective agency. For them, everything was to be done within a pattern of jobs and networks of mutual obligations in advance under the hierarchy of the organization system. China 's goal was the use politeness strategies to get along with others, not the Greek goal from the use of competitive strategies to get ahead of others.
He observed that the Greeks tend to be not only for qualifying but also a source of concern for the rating categories, according to the idea of Essenes. For the Greeks, it was crucial to find the true nature of things in the world, regardless of what it is constantly changing and converted. Therefore, humans retain the essential identity even as they age and die. The Chinese, on the contrary, to focus not only on what may be required in organisms, but also do not focus on objects at all. For them, it was always the salient features of reality can be found in the context of the
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Going It Alone” The author argues that the Eastern concept of “self” is quite different from the Western concept contrast. Asian feeling good often comes from participating in a group, as evidenced by the fact that in the Chinese language, there is no word " individualism ". The closest you can come from the word "selfish". It 's not the only Asians are less aware of the individual, and also see themselves as softer, describing "themselves" in different ways according to the occasion. In fact, people in Eastern culture take pleasure in being involved “network of supportive social relationships” and in playing “one’s part in achieving collective