History has shown that excess patriotism has often lead to disruptions of normal life, violence, wars, unifications of many places,etc . Whenever western media reports something negative on China, the ruling party will immediately resort to patriotic and historical sentiment. Government will tell their people that westerners are conspiring to impede the nation's development. Most credulous Chinese can’t accept the westerner’s criticism as they believe that westerners don’t understand their culture and thus their criticism are invalid. Take the democratic movement as an example. Chinese believe that their unique culture and history disallow radical democracy movement. They believe that someday government will become more democratic after the nation achieved the developed country’s status. In doing so they allow government’s power to move into people’s hands. Thus due to excess patriotism, most Chinese fail to see the mishap of their government and thus they keep bad governors in office. Their pride for their history and tradition has hindered the democratic movement.
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