Whereas the low-quality nature of Yamato such as narrow nationalism,national selfishness and ultranationalism becomes its root shackle in the process of globalization.
An individualist might be a rugged John Wayne, a pioneer like Amy Johnson, a creative innovator like Kate Bush, or an entrepreneur like Richard Branson.
In his speech in New York, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the US and the West as self-interested defenders of a fading international order.
Across the world, individualism is lamented when it turns us into atomized units, cut off from each other, showing little or no interest in our fellow citizens.
This phenomenon where we just naturally gravitate towards things that resemble us in some way is called implicit egotism and it's essentially the flip side of what happens when we're confronted with real-life villains.
But individualism is also often said to be the source of Western civilization's degeneracy — accused of leading to selfishness, shallow consumerism, the breakdown of society.