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Four Eastern countries that once struggled to get rid of the influence of Chinese culture, now some are completely westernized, but some are in identity confusion.
The four countries go to China, with different choices
South Korea is arguably one of the earliest and most thoroughly de-Sinicized countries. Since modern times, South Korea has not only abolished Chinese characters and Chinese, but also undergone a complete transformation in customs and religion. It has even abandoned Buddhism in favor of widespread acceptance of Christianity.
Now South Korea has become a Christian country, with more than 30,000 South Korean missionaries spreading Christianity around the world.。 Christmas becomes a statutory holiday. Young people are addicted to K-pop American individualism, but because of homophones, there is a high-speed rail accident in which "waterproof screws become water-discharging screws".
The price of cutting off Chinese characters is that thousand-year-old documents have become a heavenly book that no one can understand.
In addition to the 2005 "Han City" changed its name to "Seoul", cutting off the millennial association with Han Jiang civilization.If the plaque of Guanghua Gate is changed to Korean, it is tantamount to forging history. Finally, the government embarrassedly announced that "the original appearance of Chinese characters will be retained".
And even though South Korea is screaming to remove the Chinese language.But as a Samsung recruitment in the Korean economic industry, it requires a six-level certificate in Chinese, and even in the Jiangnan district of Seoul, the tuition fee is 40% more expensive than English.Not to mention, South Korea's economy relies heavily on the Chinese market.
Westernization is also difficult to escape from the objective fact of reliance on China.
However, compared to South Korea, it is still difficult to abandon the Chinese, but Vietnam is another extreme case.
The history of Vietnam's colonization has caused Vietnam to encounter a cultural breakdown.In 1862, France enforced the Latinization of the "national language" and closed the Confucian school.
In 1945, Ho Chi Minh abolished the Chinese language for literacy.As a result, the ancient book "Historical Records of the Great Yue" became a museum exhibitThe young people even misunderstood that "Zhao Dhanan Vietnam" was the native dynasty of Vietnam, not to mention that it was China's Han Dao mouths.
After reunification in 1975, Vietnam diverted 6.70 million tons of Chinese aid to the Soviet Union. Vietnamese prisoners of war called China an "aggressor", but chose to forget, and even accelerated the "de-Sinicization", reducing the Spring Festival (Tt) to a family dinner.
Between 1950 and 1975, China's rescue material could equip 2 million troops.Tutorial books manipulated the China-Vietnam border war, rendering the "China threat", while the people still steal the Spring Festival (Teth), and eat chickens.
However, like South Korea, Vietnam holds high its efforts to "de-Sinochem", butVietnam is shouting "decoupling", but its body cannot do without Chinese manufacturingIn the end, it is difficult to “Chinese” obviously.
And this other one is Mongolia!
Compared with Vietnam's initiative to get close to the Soviet Union, Mongolia is more like being "transformed" by the Soviet Union!
In 1924, the Soviet Union undertook a "cultural cleansing" in Mongolia, burned the recursive Mongolian classical language, forced the Cyrillic word, mass cleansing eliminated 5% of the population, cleansed the pro-Chinese forces.
Even textbooks distort the Yuan Dynasty as "Mongol Empire colonized China," and Qing governance is stigmatized as "grazing pastures."The statue of Genghis Khan in Ulaanbaatar deliberately faces the south, and the base is engraved with "Sword Points to the Great Wall".
Textbooks even define the Qing rule as "colonial oppression".
Ironically, however, when the youth of Ulaanbaatar carried the slogan "expulsion of Chinese capital",Their coal-burning boilers and 70% of daily necessities in supermarkets are labeled "Made in China".
Mongolia exports 90% of its minerals to China, but it hype "Chinese capital plunder".A 2025 poll found that 60% of people over the age of 30 were "anti-China," while young people were enthusiastic about studying in China.
In addition toThe number of Mongolian students in Inner Mongolia universities is three times more than that in Outer Mongolia。 More ironically, Outer Mongolia called Inner Mongolia, which retained Mongolian, a "cultural traitor" because it abandoned traditional characters.
However, comparing these three, more or less dependent on China, one country is denounced as "the most thorough westernization."
Singapore!
Although Singapore is a Chinese-majority country, it has taken the path of comprehensive Westernization.
After the creation of Singapore,The Chinese culture is suppressed and Western culture is respected, while English is defined as the official language and Western culture is dominated.
Ironically, in Singapore, the white people of the West are the highest ranked ethnic group, while the Chinese are the lowest, or even less, ranked than the Indians.
The Singapore government led by Lee Kuan Yew has adopted a series of China measures in order to survive and develop. In addition to listing English as the first language, it also launched a "abolishing Chinese characters" campaign in the 1980s and closed Nanyang University, the only Chinese university in Singapore.
It can be said that the bilingual policy gave birth to the Asian financial center, but the young Chinese called the "mooncake" "mooncake", and the temple priests converted to English greetings. The government retained the Spring Festival holiday, but debilitated the meaning of "unity" and promoted the "Singapore Food Festival" to replace the Mid-Autumn.
When someone scolded Lee Kuan Yew for "forgetting one's ancestors",Singapore's per capita GDP is indeed quite large. It has to be said that what is gained by cultural compromise is Singapore's right to exist as a tiny place.
Singapore’s decision to de-Chinese originated in the early days of its founding state, when Singapore faced a shortage of housing, land and natural resources, with unemployment rates of up to 12 percent.
Similarly, although the Westernization of Singapore has brought about economic development, it has become one of the developed countries in Asia and an international financial center.However, it also leads to the problems of identity and sense of belonging of a large number of Chinese groups in China.
After de-Sinicization, the identity of Chinese Singaporeans has been confused. Especially the integration of traditional Chinese culture and Western culture,Make Singapore a highly deformed society. Chinese are not like Chinese, Westerners are not like Westerners, and are in an embarrassing situation.
Similar identity confusion has also appeared in other de-Chinese countries. Although South Korea has succeeded in Westernization, it has also begun to reflect on whether it has excessively crushed its cultural roots in recent years.
It can be seen that the reasons for the de-Chinization of these countries are different, but the core is based on national interests and considerations for survival and development.
However, who would have thought that China's strength in the world today would make Chinese a "compulsory course" for students around the world?
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Singapore’s choice: the Western model of modern democracy or the traditional Confucian East Asian model.
Mongolia wants to use Latin script-Phoenix Net