The Chinese are proud
In the article, writer showed his opinions about what is a real Chinaman, how different is the Chinese culture between other cultures and so on.
The writer had many advanced viewpoints.
For example, he thinks that the real Chinaman is a man who lives the life of a man of adult reason with the heart of a child. “The real Chinaman may be coarse, but there is no grossness in his coarseness. The real Chinaman may be ugly, but there is no hideousness in his ugliness. The real Chinaman may be vulgar, but there is no aggressiveness, no blatancy in his vulgarity. The real Chinaman may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in his stupidity. The real Chinaman may be cunning, but there is no deep malignity in his cunning.” From this passage, we can see that in the writer’s view, a real Chinaman may have many shortages, but is very cute. The real Chinaman is so childlike that indeed the very words “science” and “logic” in the European languages have no exact equivalent in the Chinese language. However compared with Chinamen, foreigners is more like a wild animal.
Another example is that the writer advocated Chinese Culture deeply. He is persuading Western countries to learn Chinese culture to quell the war. In his eyes, the fundamental unsoundness of the civilisation of Europe lay in its wrong conception of human nature; its conception that human nature is evil and because of this wrong conception, the whole structure of society in Europe has always rested upon force. So militarism is necessary in Europe because of the want of an effective moral force, a physical moral force. But there is a Religion of good citizenship in China which can keep the population of a country in order without priest and without policeman or soldier. Besides, the first principle of this Religion of good citizenship is to believe that the Nature of Man is good; to believe in the power of goodness; to believe in the power and efficacy of what the American Emerson calls the law of love and justice. Thus only by learning Chinese culture can fascism be truly eradicated.
However, the writer also had some decadent and backward ideas. He believes that women are the accessories of men and should be dominated by men.
In a word, the author is still very advanced in his time. He is also a man who loves his motherland very much. He wrote his worship of Chinese culture with his own pen so that the world could hear the voice of Chinese people.
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