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Geographically speaking, whether in the Orient or in the Occident, culture has its origin in Orient. The appearance of Greek culture marks the formation of the Occident culturally. The Occidental culture presents a morphological integrity, which benefited from the development of the Greek culture acted by Roman. After the appearance of Greek and Roman culture, the European countries began their westernization successively, namely, the Hellenization of Italy, the Italianization of Britain, the Anglicization of France, and the Frenchification of Germany. There are two reasons why European countries completed westernization before Asia and other Oriental countries: First, absolutism started early and then disintegrated early; Second, Christianity was bound up in the competition of the state and the church caused by secular power. The Orient, especially China, has been in the Asiatic mode of production in all ages. And there is neither a slave society nor a feudal society. But this does not indicate the particularity of the Oriental/Chinese history. On the contrary, it only shows that the mode of production between the Oriental/Chinese society and the Occidental/European society is in a state of dislocation, that is to say, the social structure of China has not yet developed to the level of the slave society and the feudal society. There are two opposing elements in Marxism: democracy and communism. It is necessary to correctly understand and apply Marxism in order to change the dislocation of the mode of production between the Oriental and the Occidental society.