But while Confucianism has a strong following in South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam as well as in China and Taiwan, it has had its ups and downs in its homeland, not least early in the 20th century when it was blamed for China's backwardness, and during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960's and early 1970's when it again came under attack.
Nipah was discovered in 1999, when it was blamed for the deaths of 106 people in Malaysia and Singapore, mostly farm or slaughterhouse workers who got it from pigs.
Labour brought Andersen in from the cold after the Tories stopped employing the firm when it was blamed for the De Lorean cars scandal.
I am not 'pro-ana', far from it; but when it's blamed for the massive rise in the total number of people being treated for eating disorders, I will defend it.
The two announcements offered the best evidence to date that a virus never before seen in North America until last year -- when it was blamed for seven deaths and the infection of 62 others in the New York area -- had survived the winter and was again flourishing.
The pattern of using the United Nations when it is handy, blaming it when things do not go well and treating it as a political whipping boy most of the time is not new, but Ambassador John R. Bolton's bluster and bullying have carried things to a new and embarrassing extreme.
After all, although no one thinks the current CSA is perfect, at least these days it is seldom in the headlines, and when it is the Tories can be blamed for introducing it.
Weingarten continued, "Teachers want to make differences in the lives of kids but there's this current generation of reformers from the hedge fund industries who just think we can bark an order at teachers and it shall be done, and the fact is that when it isn't, they blame them quickly".
It is a well-known trap: Blame French cartoonists for a pacific response to a crime when it is obvious that we should be blaming those who would kill because of a drawing which they have probably not even seen.
When he is blamed for something he did not do, for example, prove to whoever it is that your brother isn't responsible.
