Yang Kuo-shu, a professor of psychology at National Taiwan University who has long studied the psychology of the Chinese, argues that Chinese place the most emphasis on the collective. This is why in Chinese society much greater importance is placed on the clan rather than the fetus. In the West, on the other hand, emphasis is placed on the individual, so that the mother and the fetus are considered two separate individuals.
研究中國人心理的台大心理系教授楊國樞認為，中國人顧全的是集體文化，這是中國社會在胎兒生命與家族之間，一直較不重視前者的原因；西方強調個人生命，因此母親與嬰兒反而變成兩個對立面。