余  杰：破解共产党与孔夫子的伪联盟 ——评庄万寿《中国民族主义与文化霸权》

与庄万寿一样，刘晓波思考的重点，是人何以为人，人的自由、尊严和权利为何不可剥夺；而不 是作为“中国人”，应当具有哪些“中国人的特性”。刘晓波强调：“在中国，很少有人强调作为一个人的选择，倒是天天能听到作为炎黄子孙的选择，这样，抽象 的民族群体代替了具体的个体，不是每个中国人作为人，经过自己思考后的选择，而是中华民族这个抽象的群体在替每个中国人选择。这与其说是爱国主义、民族自 尊，不如说是民族虚荣对个体自由的扼杀。”显而易见，这也是庄万寿全书的一条主线。

There are commonality and difference between the people who hold the similar thinking and value. 
Compassion could be the similar characteristic for a certain group of people; however, political difference could separate them from each other causing conflicts. This is in part caused by the ability to think over the something which have confronted them for many years. 

Unfortunately, the respected thinkers with so much common in humanistic value towards democracy and divinity even could not reach agreements on certain points. Generally speaking, they are consciously or unconsciously restricted by the education they have received. In addition to the limited intelligence of human being, they have not realized the lack of thoughts over some issue. For instance, nationality plays the dominant role in forming people's thinking over the last centuries in China. The have been toughted by their ancesters and teachers that being proud of being a Chinese is necessary merit for every Chinese people. Even the people who were mistreat and tortured by the ruler have the overwhelming idea that they should never forget being a Chinese even though they have been staying in America for many years. It seems that they do not have be responsible for being an American citizen and they should be a Chinese forever. 


This is a pity because they could never realize a fact that the reason to create a country is to serve the a group of people better. Therefore human being themselves is the core of the world under God other than a country or a nation. Overemphsizing the group or a nation was the way of the ruler in the past to teach them to serve the centralized authority. In fact, they have been brain washed for many year to give up their basic rights as a human being to be a part of group to serve the one figure who is the king. However, many educated people still fail to realize that.