A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).