My point is, the thing that you call individual flexibility is extremely difficult to pass judgment, particularly at an eliminate of hundreds of years.
Additionally, individual flexibility is more an advanced Western social idea than something that has rung through the ages. Not every person would consent toward the Western ideas of individual flexibility.
HMongs who moved to the US from Indochina during the 1970s griped that there was no opportunity in the USA, since they were not allowed to chase as unreservedly as they had at home. They needed to have licenses, notice dates, etc.
An old buddy of mine, a Tayal tribesman, is extremely pleased with a photograph of his granddad, taken during the 1920s, holding the top of another man; the Tayal considered scouting something other than an opportunity, but instead an obligation they owed their precursors. Would you consider scouting an individual flexibility?
So when you attempt to characterize individual flexibility past the advanced Western convention, you run into a great deal of issues. In any case, as to China, I will cite a companion of mine. He was a turncoat from the PRC during the Cultural Revolution. Once we were discussing government, etc, and he said that in China, opportunity has never been that significant; what has consistently been more significant is being calm in any conditions.
