Confucius :

“Gentlemen（1）advocate peace and harmony（2）while maintain individuality. Shallow people (3) arguing and disputing with same level of mediocre cognition”

1，Confucius’ teachings encourage everybody to pursue self-cultivation as a means to moral perfection. The goal of this cultivation is to become a junzi (君子 literally: ruler’s son), translated as “gentleman” or “superior person”.

2，First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

3，Shallow people，also translate to the common man/ the mean man/ the small man/the inferior man. Such as “The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.”

This teaching can be used to verify countries and cultures relations.