again, you seem to think because china and india were collectivist and europe was better, that means it was somehow different. in fact, that isn't even true because for most of its history china was way more individualistic than the west which is why you'll notice that there were civil wars going there approximately every 50 years. china practiced meritocracy compared to the western aristocracy and lack of social mobility. china even abolished its own feudalism system after the qin dynasty fell. china never even saw themselves as chinese, they were citizens of whatever rebellious governor assumed the mandate.  you fundamentally misunderstand what collectivism and individualism is on a basic level. whether you call it high trust or low trust it really doesn't matter, at the end of the day what matters is whether the idea of working together vs working for one self is what matters. because even a 'high trust society' is literally an example of people working together for a common goal, aka collectivism. to give a more accurate example, the us (specifically the white part) is an individualist society based entirely on the preservation and advancement of one's self & the materialistic greed for more rather than the benefit of the nation as a whole. something they inherited from the late british empire and now all the western world has inherited from america. and the effects of this disastrous policy have been more than obvious. no european society in history has ever been structured as such and europe at its peak whether the roman one or the early modern period prior to the french revolution ever mirrored anything remotely similar.
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