I partially agree with you. That's why I believe the political system is the good part of a culture not just political system. Some parts of the culture are related to the political system. However, there are still many parts of culture are almost not related to the political system. And even a good political system is not really perfect. There are still some parts can be improved.
While I understand both the cultures and the political systems, I can analysis and find the good parts from different systems and cultures. That's my advantage.
BTW, imitation is not about Chinese culture. The medieval gun powder was imitation from China too. There were also imitation of porcelain in British hundreds years ago. When China produce better products than western countries, there won't be imitations in China anymore. The day is coming soon especially when western countries produce fewer and fewer products.
Soren wrote on Nov 13
th, 2012 at 10:13pm:
The political system is based on the culture and civilisation. Which is based on how people see each other and relate to each other (customs, traditions, culture).
That's what you need to learn if you want to understand the political system because the political system is exclusively about how people relate to each other. Every third world country, including China, has always had crap political systems because of the dreadful way these people relate to each other, see each other, treat each other, imagine each other. They are all corrupt and exploit each other because that is their culture.
But you think the 'political system' is some isolated, unrelated thing, separate from the deepest cultural values. That's so Chinese - you want to copy without having a clue. Cheap Chinese imitation.