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Originally Posted by Ohio
...when it came to Lee's relationship with his sons, he was Chinese first, and Christian last. There is just no other way to explain history.
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The retained cultural dynamic also explains how he could be a mild, self-effacing person at times, as well as a fierce autocrat at others. Both personas were for "the building of the body", as he saw it, but it was a "body" seen through a cultural lens - his cultural lens. And WL's view of human relationships, i.e. reciprocal behavior patterns, established over time by mutual agreement, was likewise colored by culturally-derived values.
Until you get this, he appears either enigmatic (non-comprehensible) or one just writes him off as a fraud, a phony. Probably WL felt he was being real and genuine (as did many close associates) because they understood the norms that consistently were expressed. To others, this "nice little man" suddenly and inexplicably became a tyrant.