Confucian Influence? Are you sure?
The myth named “Confucian Influence” When the Confucianism is discussed, we see that it is taken for granted it has influenced the East Asian societies "greatly". But, to discuss the influence or impact of a thing, one needs to know what it had been like before to be able to say how much of the change it brought in what way. It seems no such fundamental questions have ever been raised as for the Confucianism. Somehow it has been exempted of the due diligence probe. Before you know it, you have been fed the notion of the “Confucian Influence” to become another propagator of the idea, contributing to its unchallengeability in the course. It is about time we got reminded of the simple principle that things should be subjected to the due diligence before accepted at least closest available to the truth. It is never too late. Here I start with those basic questions that have been long overdue, that the Confucianism has b...