Culture variation and Chinese / Mandarin Translation

Attend a culture training of which clarify the difference between chinese and western culture. Chinese culture training base on confusium and buddihism, and western culture based on individulizem. If you translate this to chinese, it means selfish......
Also just learned if you translate Chinese / Mandarin, it cannot translate word to word. Best way is to read full paragraph and understand the meaning, then translate the meaning instead of the word.