I am curious about what exactly do you think culture revolution had broken. Looking at other ethnic Chinese dominant areas, Hong Kong/Taiwan, which are suppose

I am curious about what exactly do you think culture revolution had broken. Looking at other ethnic Chinese dominant areas, Hong Kong/Taiwan, which are supposedly unaffected by cultural revolution, I don't think the mainlanders are any way 'less' Chinesey than they are. The young people I met from HK/TW, their lack of understanding/knowledge of ancient Chinese history/literature is really embarrassing, yet they are pretty proud of such. Not to mention that before KMT takes over, Taiwan had been colonized by Japan for 50 years, and Hong Kong by British for 100 years. If they can retrain/recover their Chineseness shortly after WW2, and being hailed as epitome of Chinese culture, I can't see how mainland China can't sustain its own culture from a 10 year madness. Only thing I felt is probably I am personally less superstitious, thanks to the on paper atheism from the CCP.