On The Impact On Singapore's Modernization By The Confucianism

Confucianism is the Confucian school's theories born and developed under Chinese circumstances of the specific social history and culture, having experienced trials of more than 2500 years. Even to this day, in Singapore, in other" Confucianism circle "countries , in the world, it shows its strong vitality. In solving many major problems confronted by modern human beings, as the mainstream of Chinese traditional culture, Confucianism can still offer inspirations, then make Confucianism be attached importance to worldwide.Singapore is a country with strong Confucian atmosphere. In a short period of dozens of years after its independence, Singapore changed itself from a backward place of frequent upheavals, economic straits, disease havocs, beggar spreading into a modernization model enjoying high reputation internationally and entered the list of newly risen industrial countries. It attracts the focus of the world with its miracles in modernization. Confucianism is a vital cultural factor leading to distinctive characteristics of modernization paths for Singapore and other "crescent zone" countries in East Asia, and the driving force for the Asian "four tigers" with Singapore as the representative to achieve economic take-off. Facing the multicultural impact, Singaporean leaders inherited and adhered to the core values of Confucianism and make it the guiding principles to manage the state and the national ideology, combining the splendid deposits of oriental civilization...