The pressure on students today to squeeze through the "gate" to higher education and study abroad is partly a carryover from the system of the past. Similarly, the difficulty of advocating a democratic government has been mainly due to the influence of several thousand years of sovereign rule.
例如今日擠升學、留學之門，便受到過去科舉考試之影響；今日推動民主政治艱難，是受到數千年君主專制之人治影響；今日喊出分離主張，便是受到異族統治，缺少強烈民族意識與國族意識之影響。