Oh god, not this again. Much of this is anachronistic half-baked justification are prototypical examples of orientalism. - Pick some modern thing you dislike,

Oh god, not this again. Much of this is anachronistic half-baked justification are prototypical examples of orientalism. - Pick some modern thing you dislike, pick some ancient thing that is generally positive. - Imply, "wink-wink", at the notion that one thing is a causal influence on the other. - Mix up and destroy any interest in the heritage. You see this when it comes to English writing with every freaking country in Asia. Frankly it gets really annoying. A prototypical example is by the way systems of exploitative labor exported after WWII from US/Europe/Russia to various Tiger economies suddenly become "Confucian" simply because the writer in his post-modern reverie believes she has stumbled upon gold. Calling it "feudal" would be just too boring apparently. There is no mass understanding/respect for either Confucius or Indic religious in Asia today. Nor is there real state patronage for the growth either of these; often there is outright opposition from the state because these traditions stand in way of "modernization". In fact, it is the culture and arts of the West that hold undue influence over many nations (and K-pop reflects this very very distinctly). Please do us all a favor and stop writing about societies you can't be bothered to understand.