It is precisely because of the understanding of world outlook in the western world that almost certainly would lead to this kind of mentality. Moreover, in view of the fact that after the Renaissance in the fifteenth century, there was a fundamental change of Westerners’ attitudes towards the world and people; this was another transformation of the world outlook since the middle ages, and it was exactly this Renaissance influence that had developed such mentality traits of the westerners. A typical case among which was the compiling of encyclopedias and the westerners used them to classify knowledge into different categories for conducting scientific purposes; this was followed by the classification of majors and disciplines in universities. However, the core standpoint of the Chinese world outlook is “harmony in diversity”, it embodies the concordance of nature.
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