the difference between the leadership of China and the west
Recently, there is a heated discussion over the difference between Chinese leaders and Western leaders. As for this topic, I will also talk something about it from two perspectives: religion and lifestyle.
As we all know, religion is a part of the culture, which plays a vital role in people’s daily life. The majority of Westerners believe in Christianity. That is because Christian culture constitutes a Western cultural background. Thus it makes any part of Western culture are more or less with a Christian atmosphere since the middle ages. However, the Chinese people have long been affected by Confucianism, so the religious belief of the Chinese nation is hybrid forms under this premise. For example, the integration of Buddhism, Taoism and others folk religion. The Western Christian culture known as the Christian theory of everything was built in a God-centered; God is the creator of the universe, who created all thing of the natural world. They think God not only created the human soul and body, but also created the history of human. Because God is omnipresent, omnipotent and concern for human, so human should obey God. Human’s greatest happiness is to restore the relationship between God and human such as parent-child, back to God’s side, human should depends on the grace of God, salvation of Christ, but also with all our heart to love God and love others. Different from the Christian, the central focus of the Chinese religion stands for “The Unity of Heaven and Humanity”. Chinese traditional culture and the concept of God and human don’t emphasize calling God to reveal themselves, but with emphasis on self-examination and the compliance of the leaders. How about the specific effect on western and Chinese leaders? In China, Christian culture can contribute to the smooth implementation of the governing class domination, to maintain the existing order from the religious sense; the religious culture provides a spiritual comfort for people. From the
As we all know, religion is a part of the culture, which plays a vital role in people’s daily life. The majority of Westerners believe in Christianity. That is because Christian culture constitutes a Western cultural background. Thus it makes any part of Western culture are more or less with a Christian atmosphere since the middle ages. However, the Chinese people have long been affected by Confucianism, so the religious belief of the Chinese nation is hybrid forms under this premise. For example, the integration of Buddhism, Taoism and others folk religion. The Western Christian culture known as the Christian theory of everything was built in a God-centered; God is the creator of the universe, who created all thing of the natural world. They think God not only created the human soul and body, but also created the history of human. Because God is omnipresent, omnipotent and concern for human, so human should obey God. Human’s greatest happiness is to restore the relationship between God and human such as parent-child, back to God’s side, human should depends on the grace of God, salvation of Christ, but also with all our heart to love God and love others. Different from the Christian, the central focus of the Chinese religion stands for “The Unity of Heaven and Humanity”. Chinese traditional culture and the concept of God and human don’t emphasize calling God to reveal themselves, but with emphasis on self-examination and the compliance of the leaders. How about the specific effect on western and Chinese leaders? In China, Christian culture can contribute to the smooth implementation of the governing class domination, to maintain the existing order from the religious sense; the religious culture provides a spiritual comfort for people. From the