Dear Terry, for user you are absolutely right that each person has it’s own character. But this here is just to compare a nations on a very common perspective. I think there is a tendency of culture each nation has. Eventhough it is getting more difficult of course to think about „one size fits all“ especially due to the fact that some countries experience a significant growth of imigrants with other cultural backgrounds.

Anyone with any common sense knows that to characterize all black people or Chinese people or Americans as being this particular way or that particular way is a totally silly perception. All black people, Chinese or Americans do not share the same mind sets, opinions and views. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find two individuals who agree on everything, sometimes anything, which is why most systems set up on the collectivist model need to rely upon coercion through laws and the police and military which ultimately makes use of a tyranical government to make the model work.

There are only individuals with individual rights. Groups are false constructions that when examined more closely fall apart.

What is really at issue here is the rights of the individual and their personal freedom. The more collectivist the model, the less rights and personal freedoms for the individual. This can easily be demonstrated by comparing the Bill of Rights which says Congress shall make no law vs. the UN Charter which disperses rights by law.

The assumption under the Bill of Rights is that individuals have natural or God given rights whose function it is for government to protect, not disperse nor control. Unfortunately, in the past 100 years, the orginal frame has been destroyed by a creeping and now galloping government grab of personal rights.

On the other hand, the UN Charter says we guarantee your rights by law. Since laws are created by them, they are also controlled by them through a change of the law. This is the same mentality and system instituted in collectivist models like Communism, Nazism and Facism where the State controls the rights and the people as in Communist China and Russia. Go talk to the people however as some have done and you will find much disagreement with the controlling government tyranny among the individuals trapped in the false collectivist model.

The real issue is personal freedom vs. government coercion or freedom from government. Government is the problem not the solution and collectivism is the idealized fantasy that allows a minority elite to control the masses who are forced by the coercion of law, police and the military to stay in their lanes, so to speak and not deviate.