Interview: Taiwan seeks freedom from Confucian culture

Confucius is often touted as a "Chinese philosopher", but his teaching was quite oppressive in many ways. Confucianism values family and respect, but to a point of dogma to older family members, no matter how obviously wrong they may be. This is the cause of so much "objection to China"—it's not that Chinese outside Mainland China despise China per se, but they despise the oppressive culture that came from Confucianism. Taiwan is no exception.