He is struck by what he calls the individualism of American officers.

他被他所认为的美国官员的独断专行吓住了。

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Will it be defined by a "rugged individualism" or a belief that, as a collective, we have a moral responsibility to each other?

（美国特质）将由“严格个人主义”定义还是由信奉我们作为一个集体对彼此都负有道德责任的信仰来定义呢？

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When I go to China these days, I am struck by how much individualism there is, how much consumerism there is.

而我来到中国的这些日子里，却深深为这里盛行的利己主义和消费主义所震惊。

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This article, Updating the Welfare State: Marriage, the Income Tax, and Social Security in the Age of the New Individualism by Professor Anne Alstott of Yale University proves that.

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In other words, America can indulge its individualism only by setting limits to it.

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In a homily at his final Ash Wednesday mass in Saint Peter's basilica earlier in the month, he said the Catholic Church had been "defiled" by internal divisions, and suggested that he had been surrounded by "too much individualism and personal rivalry".

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