Why is China a top-down Confucian society and the West a bottom-up democratic society? Jared Diamond attributes it to geography: http://www.edge.org/3rd_cultu

Why is China a top-down Confucian society and the West a bottom-up democratic society? Jared Diamond attributes it to geography: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond_rich/rich_p6.html http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond_rich/rich_p6.html Just look at the map: http://www.map-of-china.org/china-relief-map.gif http://www.map-of-china.org/china-relief-map.gif