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east asians in general don't really see a difference between religion, philosophy and cultural traditions, it's all just instrumental to them at the end of the day, for westerners it always seem confusing since they can't comprehend the idea that believing in supernatural things isn't some sort of core identity of your personality, and you just see it as a tradition or a philosophy, east asians might visit different shrines and pray at them, then get a funeral at a buddhist temple, but if you asked them if they consider themselves to be religious they'll just say no, I think that's just a cultural difference, it's like asking someone who reads plato sometimes if he's a philosopher, he'll just say no, for westerners it's pretty black and white, you're either religious or you're atheist, for east asians it's not really relevant, they're not really religious but they're not really atheist either, for them there's just philosophies, culture, mythology and traditions, all of which having instrumental purpose, but nothing that you really need to be devoted to