Jp Hayes Essays (332 words) - Confucianism, East Asian Culture

Jp Hayes Ms. Bingham World Religions and Film 11 November 2017 Confucianism In the modern world for China it is a completely different place then it use to be back when religions and practices were being created. As in the old days people may have cared most about family and relationships when now it is all about money. Money is what runs this world and without it one cannot survive or live well at all. The Confucians believe a lot in social order, family relations, and doing your duty. In the movie the parents duty is to take care of their kids and to do this they have to leave home to make money. They thought they were doing the right thing for their kids and they were not wrong but they couldn't be at home to actual raise them. Confucians really practice caring for their families and in the movies the parents were caring for them by moving just to make enough money for them but at the same time it seems to the kids that the parents aren't there for them. It doesn't matter how much or how little money the parents make the kids aren't going to understand wh y they are in another city and not at home. As a child I didn't know anything about my parents money I just knew they were physically there for me and kept a roof over my head. As China's ways of life are changing it is affecting how people can stay true to their religion. Really the parents in the film full filled their duty of supporting their kids but that physical connection wasn't clear. So the kids believe the parents don't care about them even though they do and so this causes the kids to not want and support their parents as they get older. It might not be happening to everyone yet but the new world we live in is defiantly affecting old religions and how they are practiced.