最近几十年，全球经济最具发展潜力的地区，主要就是儒教文化圈，二战后的日本，四小龙都是儒家文化圈的，目前也基本上处于发达一线。然后是中国经济的崛起，更是一举让东亚经济超越了众多地区，也让儒家文化圈的经济发展成了一个现象级的现象，而后，越南经济的腾飞，更是在一众东南亚国家中显得尤为突出。在全世界所有的文化圈里，经济能呈爆发式增长的国家只有儒家文化圈的国家全部做到了，这一奇特现象到底是什么原因造成的？在美版知乎Quora上，美国网友提问道：为什么只有中日韩等儒家文化圈国家能够实现爆发式发展？这个问题引起各国网友的围观和热议，他们的观点却大不相同。
问题：为什么中日韩和新加坡等儒家文化圈国家都能如此成功？
韩国网友李东永的回答
Many years ago, the American scholar Huntington wrote an article called the clash of civilizations. He should be a geopolitical scholar. His main point is that civilization has a decisive impact on geopolitics.
很多年前，美国学者亨廷顿写了一篇文章，叫《文明的冲突》。他应该是个地缘政治学者，他的最主要观点是说，文明对地缘政治具有决定性的影响。
After comparing the economic development history of various countries, I gradually felt similar to Huntington. But what he said was geopolitics. What I feel here is the decisive impact of civilization on economic development. This feeling is that there will be no economic weaker in the Confucian cultural circle.
在比较了各国的经济发展史后，我渐渐有了与亨廷顿类似的感觉。只不过，他说的是地缘政治，我这里感觉到的，是文明对经济发展的决定性影响。这个感觉就是：儒家文化圈，将再无经济上的弱者。
Confucian culture, because it is not very aggressive, only relies on its own charm to spread, unlike the European and American powers, which use strong ships and sharp guns to reach overseas, so it basically affects only a few countries around China. Among them, Japan is an economic miracle, the first among the developed countries; The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea have followed suit, and the four little dragons have successively ranked among the developed countries; Then there is the Chinese miracle. Now, everyone is optimistic about Vietnam.