Nisbet chapter3

When I read the second page of this chapter3(P48, line10 to 22) I quiestioned to what is written there. It says, "People think individuals should not be singled out for special treatment because of their attributes or connections to important people." He is talking about Europeans and American people here but I heard that in Britain and America, people have class and they are not so willing to hang around with people in different class. Besides, in England, which university people can go depends on which family they are from. I mean, people from good pedigree are only regarded to have a right to go to the smartest universities. (I think Rab has once talked about it.)Doesn't it mean a special treatment?
I do not especially have contrary opinion about any other part of this chapter. I can mostly agree with this author. However I want to add just one point to his opinion. He insists that in Asia, they think older people should be respected, and also a manager should be older than subordinates. It applies to most of Japanese people. Of course, I do not think people in higher positions should be always older.(I think it just may be kind of awkward to have a younger manager..) If I can add one more thing to this fact, people in Asia respect olders because they normally have more experimences than younger people. They should use honorific words(Keigo in Japanese) to olders in order to show their respects even though they are in close relationships. This might be my personal opinion, but in relationships with other people, the basic thing is to have respects to others always and be polite. Probably I think in this way because I have grown up in a high context society which value harmony with other people. If I grew up in a low context society, I must be very different from what I am. People are all very flexible and can always get influences from others.
One more thing I want to mention is that the author says that Westerners like to say things exaggerately. People in America tend to talk about their daily life more unique than it really is. (I can not find which page he was talking about this.) Also as said in page 74, a certain style of rhetoric style is new and uncommon to Asian students. While my exchange to NZ, I was always feeling this because I found "Excellent" or "Fantastic" or "Fabulous" a lot in daily conversation. It must be very fuuny if I use these kind of words to reply to someone else.

Chaper 3 was long but it was the most interesting part.