Confucianism = respect

So this week we learned about Confucianism, one of the main systems of beliefs in China. It is a bunch of philosophical ideas generated by the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479BC). It is now the dominant ethical, social and political philosophy in China. Confucius believed in strong morals (knowing the difference between right and wrong, being a generally good person). He also believed that people in positions of power should hold themselves to extremely high moral standards (a boss or "master" should take care of and respect his subjects/workers) and that everyone has their place in the working world and they should be respected for the job they have to do. I believe the saying "treat others how you wish to be treated" is just a condensed version of Confucianism, it's basically respect other people, their position, their property, and respect the world and animals around you.

On another note, I unfortunately haven't had much time to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I've only gotten to the point where after Alice falls down the rabbit hole she is stuck in a hall of doors and all the doors are locked. She finds a small key on the table and it doesn't unlock any of the doors. she then finds a door behind a curtain that's only about the size of a rat hole. She can't fit in it so she finds the potion and drinks it, it makes her small. I don't know why but she leaves the key on the table. She eats the cake and gets way too big. She sees the white rabbit and scares him. He drops his fan, she picks it up. Shes been crying and shes enormous so it start flooding the ground. The fan the rabbit dropped is somehow making her smaller, and she shrinks to the point she has to swim in her own pool of tears. When she gets smaller she realizes there were a bunch of creatures that were in the room and are now swimming in her pool of tears too. She starts talking to a mouse, and that's where I stopped reading. The part of the book I read kind of shows how Alice is pretty inconsiderate. Not on purpose that's just kind of how children are, but she decides to have a pity party and nearly kills all theses creatures(who in this book talk and have conscious thoughts). Although she is in a very strange situation she seems to be overreacting. At least that's how it seems to me.