u wasted that dude a good lot of time...:P

Is memorizing all these useless old stuff the prerequisite of being called so-called 文化人?

What is the definition of 文化人? Chinese treats it like a pearl, but to me, It is only a distinction of the scholars from the old coupe of illiterate communist farmer...The reason
Mr. Mao promoted the term 文化人 was to defend the legitimacy of his own coup of college-
graduates-comparable armymen's ruling of that country since they can NOT compete with the
elites of the country who were more approriate to administer the country...As a result, Mao
classified the people with a clear cut, you can read or cannot, and as a result, he convinced
90% of the illiterate people that his coup was the higher class 文化人...

文化人 is an obsolete terminology, sinful, and as evil as China's old examination system. It caused
very Chinese student to neglect the skills they need to make a living while emphasizing on those
useless knowledge like Chinese arts and archeology thing...

I don't mean the arts/wines/poems no good...Simply, because they are NOT good for everybody...
It is NOT an approriate criteria to classify people from 文化人 and non文化人...A few Art
students are more than sufficniet inherite & sustain these old antiques and archaelogy thing...
Most people are NOT required for more than what they learnt from high school...

Finally, archeology...it was an old study popularized in the west in the 18th century colony
era...I don't understand why Chinese are so obssessed with those old bones and shells in 21th
century and even use that to judge people...Maybe, the people are just underdevelopped and only
as mature as 18th century Europe.

Kelvin