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h cannot distinguish the good from evil, thus causing confusion in value and political attitude, which makes some unnecessary fault on thought and behavior. A. Going with the Main Stream Blindly Going with the stream is a popular phenomenon that wide exists in society and individuals, which also go steadily in youth. Some young people were influenced by this kind of mental state while they were getting in touch with or studying western ethoses. Some youths read representative works of western ethos for following fashion but not intention of studying. Some youths see other people like talking about western ethos, but he is vacant in the extent; so he looks for and reads relevant books only in order to get approval by his friends through this action and enrich the content that they talk about. As a result, he could be proud of himself. Some youths pose as fashionable for his following of new ethos, they like kicking up a row and obeying what points appear fresh. Among youths, the rising and replacement of each kind of hot topic have close relation to their enthusiasm for novelty, excitement, warm emotion as well as their extreme thoughts (Zhang Fanshen, 1989). These factors make youth to build a mental barrier from how to know new objective correctly, which make youth follow western ethos without aims and take on the features that high sensitivity, fast acceptation and less analysis; These mental features lead youth to agree with western ethos one-sidely and use it to evaluate reality life; attracting youths to lose balance between dream and reality. B. Unwarrantable Rebellion Youth hood is a period in which both body and mentality are developing and tending mature gradually. In this period, youth presents a series of changes in mentality and body; factor and condition. After the opening to the outside world, a large amount of western ethoses with their strong attraction and influence are pouring in suddenly, strengthening youth's rebellion further. Therefore, special contradiction psychological conditions of youth are grown up. On the one hand, some young men are discontented with social reality, resist everything blindly and refuse to take any advanced ideology. In some Chinese youth’s views, China's traditional culture is some sort of parasite and cancer; Moral and political education is a meaningless preaching; the mainstream custom which society advocates is the pronoun of falling behind (Wang Hansong, 1997). These kinds of suspicious and negative thinking way hinder youth to distinguish and judge things correctly. On the other hand, such excessive opposite mentality provides open space between their heart and mind and make they feel down in front of realistic conflict, which makes them transfer to or give a stronger interest on western ethos, and express a positive attitude in accepting those theories that are contrary to major culture. Some youth regard western thought view as their own thought and the main standard to criticize realistic; they regard capitalist democracy, freedom, human rights as their motto falsely; they have totally obscured the essential distinction between socialist democracy and capitalist democracy (Zhang Congyi, 2004). More than worse, some young men who under the extreme mentality accept western ethos totally without any question. C. Believing in Authority Blindly It is a widespread mental phenomenon in youth that taking authorities and famous person’s words as scientific thesis or the rule of