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A study of Chinese culture and chinese cultural roots can really serve to highlight this point of humanitarianism and egalitarianism being non-universal.

Chinese society is "collective" but not egalitarian. It doesn't pretend that all beings are created equal; it clings to the implicit hierarchy of humans in their roles. If you're a woman, a child, a grandmother, a husband, you have a role to play and if you don't play it, you're shamed and ostracized by society, not encouraged or supported.

Chinese moral ethics says that your parents are superior to you, the child, and that you have to have filial piety - extreme respect, obedience, and care - for your parents. They even go so far as to have 24 filial exemplars, with children doing such things as selling themselves into slavery to pay off their father's funerals, or otherwise sacrificing themselves for their parents, and being praised for it as being the shining examples of ethical behavior.

And Chinese culture has been a complete social ecosystem within itself for 5000+ years already; its plausible that if Christianity didn't come about, we would have strong hierarchical confucian and taoist values and we would not even think of the world in the language of equality and human rights.

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