Compared with Japan’s retention of traditional culture, and selective absorption of Western culture. China's attitude towards foreign cultures is to accept everything at a shallow level without reservation, and the way of thinking that really promotes the deep level of Western civilization is completely rejected.
The samurai have a samurai culture that has accompanied them for thousands of years, and this culture is reflected in every detail of samurai life. It can be as small as the family crest of each family, the samurai swords, armors and unique hair accessories of the samurai passed down by the family, as large as the belief in the face of war and the thinking about life. It is these nuances that deeply affect every Japanese. Western culture has brought the samurai culture to its end, but I think Japanese people are still influenced by traditional culture. Japan is now a civilized country, but you can still see Japanese kendo. In Japan, people will bow as they did before, and they will still wear traditional costumes on festivals to honor their ancestors. And the management models of Japanese companies are exuding traditional Japanese culture. As an important part of Japanese traditional culture, samurai culture also affects this nation bit by bit.
In China, it seems that we have abandoned all the dross of the old culture and pushed everything back. We have introduced everything from the West, architectural styles, food, dressing methods, modern medicine, computers, and even sexuality. But we are all looking at these foreign things with the minds left to us by our ancestors. The introduction of everything just makes us look more like Western countries. It just looks like it. Except for this coat, the current Chinese thinking has only a small change from the one hundreds of years ago.
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