) China is one of those countries that is so huge and so foreign to many Americans that most of us don't even try to understand its politics or culture. Having now read two weeks' worth of commentary on Chinese culture and religious history, how would you say that the Confucian emphasis on doing one's duty and knowing one's place in society has impacted the country that China is today (Le., booming economy, excellence in research, and incredibly high academic success rates, but also extraordinarily rigid social controls over what one can Google search, brutally effective usage by Chinese law enforcement of facial recognition technology and other invasive techniques, seeming mass acceptance of the now 70+ year occupation of Tibet, etc.)