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The American Ideal of Individualism
"I'm in a funny position that in my formative years, I came here when I was 13," he says. "My long term monogamous relationship is now with the idea, the American ideal." In China and Russia, you can't always wear the American ideal of individualism, radical individualism and freedom as an excuse for authoritarian rule or state-sanctioned violence. The first need to try to understand how someone else might view something differently than yourself is important if we want to eliminate conflict.