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Attitude Towards Barbarians

The Chinese view of barbarians were those people that lacked Chinese culture. They were without the civilization of the Chinese. Therefore, they were by their very nature barbarians. People that were not Chinese lacked the later Confucian concepts of li and jen.

li - decorum and etiquette
jen - humanity and love

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