To be fair, if Westerners don't get this concept it may be because they'd prefer to hurt and kill each other instead. But there's a definite motivation behind this spite, a reason for this cultural divide: "face". This man wanted to win the argument so badly that he was willing to die for it. The man felt so trapped by a lack of choices in his life that he was willing to end it all just to win "face" one last time. If something this extreme sounds very familiar to Chinese culture, it should: there's a festival celebrating this behavior. Continue reading
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