Except your obvious lack of understanding about China and Chinese culture other than what seems to be a simple stereotype glimpsed off a TV documentary at some point and then assume you have some sort of deep insightful look at Confucius makes what you said not only irrelevant but borderline offensive.
This is slander. You don't know what my education is and you have no right to falsely state about me things that are not factually true. Let me make this crystal clear for everyone: I do know about Confucius, I do understand Confucianism, I have delved in philosophy (granted, Confucianism was not my focus of study, so I won't claim I have a deep insightful understanding of it, but it does take much less than my level of understanding to see see that the CPC has pretty much trampled on China's traditions and intellectual legacy), I do know what Zhuge Liang's legacy is in Chinese culture and I have studied Chinese history and traditional culture (again, it was not the main focus of my studies, but I have studied it in an Academic environment -- nothing to do with anything on TV).
[Ok now I want to make this crystal clear: the previous paragraph is just supposed to correct flase erroneous information stated by Typo on my level of education and on whre I am getting my information on Chinese history, culture and society from. The previous paragraph is not supposed, in any way to be an argument in favour of my vies on the issue at hand and it is not an argument on anything we were previously discussing, because it does not concern facts, just my person. So don't take it as one.]
Typo, I still know you're not a red commie, but if circumstances were so that you could be, and if in those circumstances you had the desire to become one, let me tell you, you would succeed, you've got the right stuff. Just my opinion, honest to God.
Marxism-Leninism? Are those guys Chinese?
Now I don't have any evidence other than personal experience to back up what I'm going to say, but the overwhelming majority of Chinese people I've met, including those living in the mainland, hold views and mindsets that seem disproportionately oriented to Western thought, Western philosophy, Western ideals, etc. There have been many who point to the 1850-1950 period and say "look how far being Chinese got us". These people then go one to say stupid things like "Without the CPC there is no China" and that kind of nonsense. Yes, these people are definitely Chinese. I am not going to call them idiots, for many of such people I have talked to are intellectuals (actually it is the intellectuals who most commonly subscribe to this mentality, since they get the most ideological education). But their mindsets are warped, and I submit that the CPC's ideology, which is far from simply "taking ideas from across cultures" is largely behind a lot of this mess.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
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