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— Maxine Hong Kingston"People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship."
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Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.
— Henry Vollam Morton
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Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.
— David Henry Hwang
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