Quora精選：東西方文化有哪些區別？
How would you compare Eastern and Western culture and philosophy?
怎樣對比東西方文化和哲學？
獲得901好評的回答@Arya Elhamdi：
The biggest difference between Western and Eastern culture is the flexibility towards change and reform.
東西方文化間最大的差別就是面對改變和改革的靈活性。
West was not always like the West that we know today. They have adapted to newer ways of life faster than Easterns while Easterns adapt to change slowly.
西方並不一直是我們現在熟悉的樣子，他們比東方人更快地適應新的生活方式，而東方人適應變化要慢一些。
Nationalism is lesser in Western culture. Today’s Westerns have almost nothing similar to the way their ancestors lived. Even compared to 1950s society today’s Western culture is much different. In East they will often bring up their ancestors and their way of lives and traditions which gets in the way of change.
西方文化中不太強調民族主義，現今的西方人和祖先的生活方式大相徑庭，甚至和20世紀50年代的社會相比，現在的西方文化都產生了很大變化。東方人總會提到祖先以及祖先的生活方式和傳統，這就阻礙了變革。
Western culture is centered mostly around freedom. Freedom to do anything. Freedom to choose anything. Freedom to say anything. Because of that freedom people change the way they want and the society, tradition and lifestyle changes fast.
西方文化主要圍繞自由，做事、選擇和言論的自由。因爲有這種自由人們按照自己喜歡的方式做出改變，並且社會、傳統和生活方式變化都很快。
Eastern culture is more conservative and controlling towards people’s actions and their lives, too many taboos, old traditional dogmas which tells them to live in a certain way other people see fit.
東方文化更保守，控制着人們的行爲和生活，禁忌太多，還有太多傳統的教條告誡人們要以別人看來合適的方式生活。
Inequality in Eastern culture is higher, it could be based on gender or even age. In some Eastern culture being elder gives people special privileges and elders control everyone’s lives, they have a say on how everyone should live. An elder voice counts, young voices are not taken into account, another reason that hinders their social growth and change.
東方文化中的不平等更嚴重，包括性別甚至年齡的不平等。在一些東方文化中，長者就有特權，長者控制着每個人的生活，他們有權指點別人該怎樣生活。長者說的話有分量，年輕人就人微言輕，這也是阻礙社會發展和變革的另一原因。
獲得66好評的回答@Amin Rah：
Western culture has freedom to the point people THINK they can do whatever they want but it is not the case since I lived in the West for the past 15 years and these freedoms can become negative to the point that certain people can be granted so called privileges more so than others. Freedom doesn't exist anywhere. It is all privileges given to us by the elite of this world.
西方文化中的自由到了人們“自以爲”可以爲所欲爲的程度，但其實並非如此，因爲過去的15年我一直生活在西方，這種自由的消極影響是有些人的確比他人擁有更多的所謂的特權。自由其實並不存在，只是社會中的精英賦予我們的所有特權而已。
Eastern culture is worse because there is literally less privilege unless you live in Japan or Israel and a few other nations but overall, too much dictatorship exist by religious retards, who want to control people to the point people not only hate the government but the very nation they reside in.
東方文化不太好，因爲除非你生活在日本或以色列以及少數幾個國家，否則你的特權絕對會更少。總體來說，由於宗教影響有太多獨裁者想控制人們，結果導致人們不僅討厭政府，而且討厭他們所在的國家。
（翻譯：菲菲）
