No, I'm saying that only Americans are so conditioned to value their "self esteem". There is no emphasis on this stupidity in the other cultures.
It's all about the emphasis: http://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/articles/Cai%20et%20al.%20...
And I don't think that study supports your comment at all.
> Supporting this contention, our Chinese participants reported liking themselves every bit as much as our European American participants.
> This finding supports our claim that cultural differences in self-esteem arise from cultural differences in self-evaluations, with people from East Asian countries evaluating themselves less positively than people from Western countries.
> Thus, even though cognitive self-evaluations are lower in China than in America, they are not less predictive of global self-esteem. This finding suggests that global self-esteem is experienced similarly across dissimilar cultures
This study finds that self esteem is equally prevalent across the two cultures, and as far as I can see says nothing about how much the participants value their self esteem.
Again. Only Americans are conditioned to value and cherish their self esteem. That was my statement.
Other cultures do not put any emphasis on self esteem (and many consider it as something shameful to even talk about it).