mrswdk wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:mrswdk wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:This is most likely due to rice growing demanding a cohesive community wheras Western farmers can just grow whatever on their own land and not worry about their neighbors.
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Efficient rice growing demands that fields be kept flooded. This requires co-operation among the community to ensure that all fields get adequate water (i.e. my water drains to your field and not to a random hole).
Subsistence farming was the norm through Western culture for all the important years (i.e 1700 to the Gilded age).
That's all very well, except that only a minority of Chinese farmers grow rice.
And even in the case of rice farmers, I don't get why co-operation with other rice farmers would translate into a culture of subservience to authority.
I don't get it either, but it seems to be the case. Is there a better explanation for how this culture developed? Or, are you denying that aspect of the culture exists?