Is this trve? I didn't know Chinese people had caste system
>>222397057The highest caste in the Chinese caste system are Japanese people unironically
Chinese culture was heavily influenced by India
The biggest insult Indians can deal is that someone is like them.
>>222397137That doesn't make any sense
>>222397057If I looked like any of those guys I would be ashamed of stepping my foot outside the house, let alone running an international company
top caste Taiwanesebottom caste rest
>>222397081many are saying this but how is that possible?
>>222397096>*citation needed
>>222397915The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China by Erik Zürcher (1959)The Indianization of China: A Case Study in Cultural Borrowing by Hu Shih (1937 essay / lectures)
>>222398079Buddha and Buddhism originates from Nepal, not India.
>>222397057Yeaht. knower
>>222397057No I don't know why you indians are pushing this meme. What are you trying to achieve?
>>222398430This is such a pathetic cope. Even if Lumbini were distinct at that time it wouldn't make any difference, this whole region which was part of the greater ancient Indian cultural and geographical sphere. It literally borders modern day bihar in the present. Anachronistically applying modern nation-state borders to the 6th century BCE is a coping behavior. The roots, language, and philosophical context of early Buddhism are entirely derived from the Vedic and Shramanic traditions of the Indian subcontinent. But you don't know this because you have never actually studied anything. Trying to decouple India from buddhism is so weak, pathetic, and lame. You worship BIC.
>>222397057caste systems exist everywhere it's nothing new. China has the hukuo system that divides the proles from each other.
>>222398730>Vedic and Shramanic traditions of the Indian subcontinent.didnt vedas come from PIE people in the steppes northwest of india?
>>222398606By this exact same braindead logic, ancient Greek philosophers born in modern-day Turkey (like Thales or Herodotus) aren't part of Greek history. Your shitty argument would make sense if modern day Nepal was not located in the Indian subcontinent. Don't projecting modern Westphalian borders onto a Bronze/Iron Age Vedic tribal landscape
>>222397057FYI this is based on the Confucian idea of scholars (shi) being more respectable than farmers (nong) and tradesmen (gong), with merchants (shang) being the least respectable. But it's not caste and presenting it as a pyramid makes even less sense as farmers are obviously the most numerous. And it was still better to be a merchant than a farmer, they just made government officials seethe because they were harder to tax and control and could even be richer. Indians are misinterpreting it to cope with their own caste system. A real caste system that has clear genetic evidence of 2000+ years of reproduction being kostly within each caste.
>>222399122I heard that it is the revelation of Confucius that has kept China going, yet many modern Chinese people do not respect him. Please answer this. I don't care about the Xitter banter or the Chinese "caste system"
>>222399122>with merchants (shang) being the least respectablei've seen this with other asian cultures toowhy were they so anti-mercantile in the past?
>>222399304>yet many modern Chinese people do not respect himThis is incorrect thoughbeit, it's like saying Jeets don't respect Buddha or something because most are Hindu. His teachings have influenced their culture immensely even now, much like Jesus with Christian society even if most people are non-Practicing or overt atheists.
>>222399526On the other hand, lots of youth are fed up with filial piety towards their overbearing parents. And women aren't going to get much out of its patriarchal world view.
>>222399577>filial pietyThey are way too buckbroken to ever rebel against this though, 孝顺 will continue governing them for centuries even as the other parts like the distaste for mercantile activity have faded away.
>>222399526Thanks for explaining. Is this guy an isolated schizo case?
>>222398614Maybe they are trying to box in unknown (Chinese social structure) into a familiar frame of reference (Indian caste system)
>>222399916Yeah that's a schizo, he even admits Confucius is too influential that's why they need to get rid of him. It's a very similar argument to those brown neo-nazis who want to become pagans because Jesus is jewish and too passive o algo, in fact I'd almost certainly guarantee that argument influenced what he's saying.
>>222397057Why is the Minimax guy so low?
>>222399916At a touristy old Protestant church, there was a poster about how Christianity, Confucianism and Communism all promote the same social values. And at the museum part of the Confucian Temple in Beijing, there was a bit about Matteo Ricci synthesizing Catholicism snd Confucianism. That seems to be the actual government line, fitting with their goal of sinicizing religion.
>>222400368That's interesting. So they they're not trying to erase religion outright, but rather reframe it as compatible with Confucian and socialist or CCP values?
>>222397057Other way around, the merchant-nobles are the highest caste in modern China
is this the infamous Indian Spiritual intelligence obtained by chugging litres of gaumutra and holy cow shit after offering to goddes worship and eating with bare toes and calling it eternal tanatan derma
>>222397057its not caste like india, its more like profession respect pyramid and unlike india, you are not born into it aka you can change to whatever you feel like or at least long time ago since they dont give a damn about it anymore.
>>222401267You seem upset, chammar-kun?
>>222397057Basically, yes, just remember the hukuo system. Brahmins and kshatriyas have registration in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen and live by 1st and 2nd world standards, while there are shudras and dalits from remote provinces living by the third world standards who find it very difficult to leave, and even if they do, they can't claim education and healthcare in the wealthier cities they've moved to (at least not to the same extent as people with registration in these cities). Communism!
