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The Confucian ideal of perfect manners, superior character, obedience to authority and protocol, respect for tradition and elders, scholarship, loyalty to the family ancestors and the state worked well for over a thousand years but was set up when conditions were tremendously different from today's.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 4 : China, Japan, Tibet > # 101