Ready for it chinese? _after reading the news about French President was insulted.

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Now the single culture disappears. In past time the French have cherished the spirit of sheer French through the centered public school. And the more bright come into universities. Most of them become the elite of the society. They rein the country. And the next generations follow their father and great father’s steps. The days have gone away with the wind.

Today, people belong to more different races, religions and languages. The president

Chirac opened the closer eye at the fact by means of one law draft, which bans Islamic head

scarf and Jewish skullcap and ostentatious cross in public school. Suddenly People come to

the fact they are not the sheer starchy French.

As a matter of fact, I argue that china will face the same question. Different social classes assume to express themselves in public. Ready for it are Chinese?

Wumanfu · Accepted Answer

Fascinating for me too. I was discussing this with a best friend in Shenzhen recently. She shared an essay with me by an academic named XI Bay. The complete essay is on the net if you want. I have summarised his introduction below.

China has been undergoing drastic change. "Paradigm shift" is a more and more popularly used phrase, which indicates that people realize there will be a kind of fundamental and critical change. A new and more powerful paradigm of puzzle solving may emerge. A historical breakthrough may take place. As we are in a global age, the success of the paradigm shift in China will certainly concern not only Chinese people, but also people around the world. Many schools of thought compete for the right to lay down foundations for the blueprint of future value structures. Could Chinese religion play some role in this change?
The religious influence could be viewed in different ways, for "Chinese Religion" is a general term that covers a broad phenomenon, working at different levels and in different domains, involving at least two major subgroups, namely, common people and intellectuals. If one analyses the way that people feel about modern times in China, it’s clear that Even today, many Chinese people miss the "golden time of the high moral ethos" of the 1950s and 1960s. XI Bay’s task is to find out exactly why, paradoxically, though people feel the appeal of that "golden era," they still favor a change of their moral paradigm.
He says that generally speaking, a moralist paradigm like this tends to trust the moral perfection of human beings too much. It merges political power and value source and so moves even further from Confucius to Plato who would legitimize the political control over all spheres. The twofold task that Chinese reformers now face is clear: First, to evaluate the old value paradigm critically so as to push it to make fundamental change; second, to seek to create a new paradigm with the capacity of solving the pressing problems of Chinese modernization and moral revival.

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