1. The difference in social values has been attributed to the seafaring
traditions of western civilisation, with its mythology depicting unique heroic
pioneering individuals, while the Chinese ideals depicted conforming, lineage
upholding individuals in the land based continuity preserving culture (Yu-Lan,
1948 in Beinfield & Korngold, 1991). 2. Since organ names and pathological descriptions engender different
meanings to their vernacular definitions, the first letter of the word will be a
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