几千年来的社会基本模式
如果你看一下几千年来的社会，你会发现某些基本模式。
从清教徒开始的美国文明是一种乐观主义和有序政府的发展。
中国的历史是朝代的兴衰，社会的兴衰。
在所有这些动荡中，家庭、大家庭、宗族为个人提供了一种生存的筏子。
文明已经崩溃，王朝被征服者扫地出门，但这个救生筏使[中国]
文明得以继续，并进入下一个阶段。
if you look at societies over the millennia you find
certain basic patterns. American civilization from the Pilgrim Fathers on is
one of optimism and the growth of orderly government. History in China is of
dynasties which have risen and fallen, of the waxing and waning of societies.
And through all that turbulence, the family, the extended family, the clan, has
provided a kind of survival raft for the individual. Civilizations have
collapsed, dynasties have been swept away by conquering hordes, but this life
raft enables [Chinese]
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