Ruist Basics

How Familiar Are Americans with Confucianism?

A few months ago, we set out to assess Americans’ knowledge of, and attitudes toward, Ruism. To achieve this, we conducted a survey of 379 adults living in the United States. We’ll be sharing the results in the coming weeks.

We asked: “On a scale of 1 to 5, how familiar are you with Confucianism?”

  n %
1 (Not at all familiar) 59 15.1
2 139 35.5
3 85 21.7
4 85 21.7
5 (Very familiar) 24 6.3

Only about 6% of respondents said they were very familiar with Confucianism.