Confucianism can't adapt to the mainstream of modern social development.

(A) Confucian culture does not adapt to modern society.

References 1. Confucian culture from Singapore;

Singapore attaches importance to traditional Confucian culture, but at the same time attaches more importance to western culture. Many people use Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew's admiration for Confucian culture to illustrate that Confucian culture is the foundation of Singapore's rise. Actually, this is a very one-sided view. The whole legal framework of Singapore was left by Britain, which played a decisive role in its development. At present, the judges tried by Singapore courts still wear the hats of British judges. Singapore's legal structure is precisely the value structure of Britain and the result of European legal spirit.

It is Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, who admires Confucian culture and has a clear understanding of its disadvantages. Lee Kuan Yew believes that Confucian culture emphasizes the authority of elders and does not adapt to the modern world. This is a world where young people create history.

At the 1999 Shanghai Fortune Forum, Lee Kuan Yew also pointed out that China's traditional culture cannot produce entrepreneurs. Because of China's Confucian culture: learning to be excellent is to be an official. However, the United States has only changed one word, that is, learning to be excellent leads to business.

Therefore, Singapore attaches great importance to using western culture to make up for the deficiency of Confucian culture. The western culture mentioned here is not the "western science and technology" defined by China's management, but the whole western culture including philosophy, humanistic spirit and religious belief.

Singapore is a global city-state, in which 1 10,000 people are foreigners. Singapore attracts outstanding talents from all over the world with the spirit of "inclusiveness". Singapore culture is also a chaotic culture. In Singapore, we can't see the situation that China culture dominates the world, and we can't see the traces of China management.

Although Singapore enterprises have obvious hierarchy and obedience culture, it is the western management system that dominates Singapore enterprises. Singapore has the most perfect professional manager system in Asia, supported by western philosophy. Therefore, Singapore's business management model is the result of the blending of Confucian culture and western culture, not based on pure Confucian culture.

Reference 2: The conflict between Confucian culture and legal system, civilization and freedom.

Today's world is a world of democracy, freedom and rule of law, and our traditional culture such as Confucianism has shown obvious inadaptability in this respect. The Japanese have changed their adaptation, so they are more developed than us now. And we still have many psychological and institutional obstacles at this point, so we are still not as good as others. You can have the right to hate others, but it's no use. You should be better than others, so that you will have a sense of security and there will be no threat to your survival. This is not inferiority, it is self-confidence that has such courage. A person with a strong sense of inferiority is afraid to admit his shortcomings. Only self-confident people dare to speak out their own shortcomings generously, dare to face up to their own shortcomings and try to learn from others. A tolerant person, a good learner and a person full of self-confidence. It is naive and self-deceiving to say that westerners began to look for a home in China culture. As early as 1930s, Liang Xuan, a famous Confucian scholar, had already said this in his works, such as Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophy. It is said that our culture is spiritual and foreign culture is material. Foreign countries began to learn our China culture. It was refuted by Mr. Hu Shi at that time. These statements are not new. If we are a nation that loves learning, we should not forget it easily. In fact, the poorer and weaker the nation, the more eager it is to be recognized by the West. This is the expression of national inferiority complex.