Individuals

Something else that stood out to me was the part where Confucius says "all human beings are fundamentally the same"(11). This stood because in our media people are always talking about having individuality and being unique. Now, according to Confucius this is won't happen. He says that we are shaped by our environment and that defines who we are. He also says that we are "in need of constant modeling to achieve our ultimate end of moral perfection"(11). This all goes against what I believe because I always thought that everyone was completely different from one another and that we are shaped by society to be the same. The people that didn't want to abide by society's norms were the people were seen as different. I just think it's interesting that Confucius thinks that we are one in the same when we are born then get changed and molded.