Word: confucianists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the patriarchal influence of Chinese Confucianism, the strongly Confucianist legal code of 19th Century Nguyen dynasty had to respect the economic role of Vietnamese women, she added. For example, the code forbade a husband from divorcing his wife if she had already made him rich through her labor...
Islam has much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...