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Not intending to speak for others, but I believe that the original poster intended "ideals as practiced by the CCP" (e.g., Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, etc), and it sounds to me like you are espousing the Chinese culture of the 1911 revolution, which does indeed support the rights of individuality, privacy, free speech, and self defense.



If such deeply-held values can flip within 40 years, then what does it mean to say one set is "Eastern" and one is "Western"?


> If such deeply-held values can flip within 40 years...

I'm afraid you've lost me...?

> ...what does it mean to say one set is "Eastern" and one is "Western"?

I suspect that's more of a historical convention than anything else. Probably would have used the term "Enlightenment" rather than "Western", myself.




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