Who loves their ancestors more, Americans or China?

There is such a widely circulated joke. At the beginning of the founding of the United States, a French nobleman made fun of an American: "You Americans like to brag about your ancestors, but you can only talk about your father and count your grandfathers, ha, not Americans." The American immediately retorted, "You French also like to brag about your ancestors, but unfortunately you often don't even know who your father is." Today, the United States is still a young country in the long history of mankind. Americans in our impression are also enthusiastic and energetic. They just want to be full of individualistic cells today, regardless of tomorrow. In fact, Americans, like China, have a tradition of talking about their ancestors. The United States also engages in "high-tech genealogy". When Locke was nominated as Minister of Commerce, the domestic media created a lot of gossip that he was a direct descendant of Luo, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty-perhaps from Luo's genealogy. Surprisingly, Americans also have this addiction. One piece of news seems to be gossip: Obama may be of German descent. It turned out that American researchers found relevant documents to prove that one of Obama's ancestors came from Germany. This study was initiated by an American website called Ancestors. The person in charge of the project said that the researchers found this surprising fact when they looked up microfilm files in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. When I visited this website, I found a lot of things in it, with more than 10 million views every week, and more than 20 thousand people submitted their family stories every week. Even more surprising, it has opened branches in Sweden, Canada, Britain and other places. These websites are similar. It is all for users to fill in their family and ancestors after input. If you happen to be a family member with people from several generations ago, a small light will light up. From the perspective of cultural comparison, making genealogy and studying ancestors is definitely the patent of China people. The first sentence of our speech is often "Confucius said" and "the ancients said". The reason for winning the first prize is to pay homage to our ancestors. When we become famous, we should recognize our ancestors and give them a memorial tablet in festivals. Even if we hate a person, we still have a relationship with our ancestors-digging their graves. Americans have no love or resentment towards their ancestors. They learn to do things because "I like it" and earn a lot of money to spend or give back to the society. In short, they won't give it to their parents. Even when swearing, there are great differences between China and the United States. Americans like to scold "Fuck you", while China likes to scold "K your mother". One is for me, and the other is for its elders. There are obvious differences in attitudes towards ancestors. But there are exceptions When children in China are asked who they admire most, they like to say that Napoleon, Newton, Mao Zedong and Guan Yu are all famous figures. A few years ago, a magazine published an article saying that if you look at Americans, children generally worship their fathers. This article has a great influence. Slowly, China's children began to learn that they admired their father the most. The forms are similar, but the motives are quite different. With the history of ancestor worship far ahead, something like "ancestor net" appeared in the United States before China, which was caused by many factors. First of all, the Internet originated in the United States. Most of the original ideas about the Internet were made by Americans and imitated by China people. Google comes first, Baidu comes first, FACEBOOK comes first, Xinkai comes first, and two of them come out at once, which makes people lament China people's "takenism" ability. Therefore, it is logical that websites like Ancestor.com originated in the United States. More importantly, China and the United States have different levels of development. After entering the post-capitalist era, the United States has already solved the problem of food and clothing. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, everyone pursues something at a higher level. I'm tired of a big meal; Movies and games are tired; Tourism is not new; As a result, things like ancestor network began to get attention. In China, after the Cultural Revolution, the mainstream ideology was materialism and pragmatism. Everyone is busy making money, and tradition is shelved. Everyone pays attention to learning math and physics. It is better to have a good father, and the worship of ancestors stops at his father. Of course, if grandpa can bring good luck, you can also respect him. Of course, what needs to be seen is that the activities such as ancestor worship at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and ancestor worship at the Confucius Temple began to get official promotion and support, which shows that after the material wealth, the spiritual demand rose, and China people began to think about things other than reality and ancestors. This is particularly evident in the developed provinces in the south. The rich spend huge sums of money on repairing tombs and genealogy, which is another difference between China and the United States in their attitudes towards ancestors. People in China built tombs for their ancestors, but the ancestors didn't know, and people around them knew. In other words, it is ostensibly to build a tomb for ancestors, but it is actually ostentatious. The name of this painting is the ancestor worship of China people. Americans are different. Scientific research has proved that knowing as much as possible about the health history of eight generations of ancestors is increasingly helpful for today's doctors to accurately and quickly discover and diagnose some genetic diseases they may have. Collecting family health history data is the first step to assess your risk of hereditary diseases. It can be seen that it is of practical significance to attach importance to the eight generations of ancestors, which is in line with American pragmatic philosophy. If a website collects family health information of hundreds of millions or even billions of people, it will form a huge database, and you can wait to collect money. It's just a matter of "grabbing grass and beating rabbits" to say what a celebrity has.