Jiang's phrase for the empathic cohesion that would let people act beyond narrow family or clan loyalty.
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social glue
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...don't know and so the sort of like social bonds the social glues that allow society to function don't really exist in China and..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...don't know and so the sort of like social bonds the social glues that allow society to function don't really exist in China and..."
Key Notes
He argues that without empathy as social glue, China is weaker and more fragile than outsiders assume, because citizens do not naturally think and act at a national level.
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"...very fragile very weak And that's because there's no empathy the social glue to to have everyone together and think nationally China very much..."
"...don't know and so the sort of like social bonds the social glues that allow society to function don't really exist in China and..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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