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"Societies work best, and have always worked best, where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively with them for common goals, and thus share a civic culture." mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116… 
"Asians have a particularistic outlook, not a universalistic one." #Particularism
lucian pye in 1999 suggesting that perhaps china wouldn't become a liberal democracy after all because "maybe asian values are distinctive." mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…
"The particular civility norms of a country either facilitate or impede the accumulation of social capital."
"Confucian culture had powerful norms of civility, but it lacked the rules for impersonal dealings beyond face-to-face level that are critical for the development of a pluralistic democracy." #Particularism
"China is a plate of sand." there is/was little social integration beyond family, clan, and personal relationships. #Particularism #KithAndKin
pye sums up the modern chinese economy in one sentence:
asian values are not focused on the broader community (as lee kwan yew and others have suggested), but rather on family, clan, neighborhood, and the immediate community. in other words, asian values are (more) particularistic, not (so) universalistic.
