Speaking of China’s feudal traditions, I often hear people, especially those who resist the democratization process, repeat this old theme that democracy is perhaps not for China because of our strong feudal culture and traditions.
Heck, our feudal culture and traditions were much stronger back in the Qing Dynasty and look what happened then!
You see, perhaps it is not matter of whether democracy is right for China, it is more the matter of old traditions dying hard.
In other words, the ideas of democracy may have come, the ideas of feudal traditions haven’t completely gone.
Yes, that’s right. Old traditions die hard. Got to have patience and give them time.
Alright, here are media examples of things and people whose time have come:
1. It is the nation that once ran the largest empire the world has ever known, a country so powerful that it claimed to “rule the waves” in a patriotic anthem.
But last month a “political tsunami” struck the United Kingdom and this once-mighty state faces being broken up.
An astonishing victory for nationalists in the Scottish parliamentary elections means it is almost certain that a referendum will be held within five years on whether Scotland should leave the U.K. and become an independent country.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) won 69 out of 129 seats in Edinburgh's Holyrood parliament, with about 45 percent of the vote, up by more than 12 percentage points. Their three main rival parties — Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats — all lost ground.
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