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"By Western standards" as in you can point to other countries that are clearly more individualistic or do you mean by the measure of Western philosophies of the
by silverpepsi 5y ago
"By Western standards" as in you can point to other countries that are clearly more individualistic or do you mean by the measure of Western philosophies of the concept of individualism??
- timoth3y 5y agoI don't think there is a philosophical agreement on what constitutes "individualism", so I won't try to speak to that. However, for the purpose of this discussion, we are talking about a society's relative tolerance of individuals choosing to live their life the way they wish and a relatively weak emphasis on social conformity. I'm sure someone has done proper quantitative research on this, but offhand, I think the Netherlands would score pretty high. P.S. I used "Western standards" to differentiate from developed Asian nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore which are more conformist.