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I don't understand why you feel the need to protect a head of state of another country from being parodied either. If you live in China where they teach you to obey the rules of the CCP, thank the CCP and Xi for everything they provide, and basically view Xi as a god, then yeah I can see why. But you live in a Democratic state. The government is supposed to serve YOU, not the other way around. Sure you can show the leader some respect if you want, but it doesn't mean everyone has to either. You don't live in China where you can't even make jokes about their leader.
Again, its a parody of Pooh, which is yellow. It has nothing to do with having yellow skin. If Pooh somehow is white/green/pink, that pic would be white/green/pink. You claim that it's racist against Asians in general, so I'm here to tell you as an Asian that it's not.
Americans are not using it in the same context you are talking about.
Racists co-opt things, this one was just easier to do than most
I see. Thanks I guess?
What are you thanking me for?
I understand your need to reframe my objections to racist caricatures in general as being a defense of someone you're trying to demonize with your racism. But if you weren't being racist to asian people generally when you say it's acceptable to do minstrel show level racism to the right targets, you're certainly being racist towards Chinese people in general right now when you're using this stereotype of them being hive minded and easily brainwashed.
Sounds like Christian fundamentalists talking about Arabs.
Who the fuck am I being racist to? Asians? As an Asian myself?
Nowhere have I said that. Them having that kind of education since a kid is a fact. And you clearly haven't been on Chinese social media to see what bullshit the pinkies say on there.
I can link you their textbooks if you want
No it isn't. Prove it. Primary sources.
You asked for it. Beware links are in Chinese since you asked for the primary sources.
Since 1994, China has been implementing patriotic education 愛國主義教育 into their education systems. In 2017, CCP implemented 習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想 "Chinese way of Socialism in the new Xi era" or "Xi Jinping Thought" into their party constitution.
Links to it: Wiki, Their education site about the history of their party
The main items of the thought include: "四個意識 Four Consciousnesses" "四個自信 Four Confidences" and "兩個維護 Two Safeguards" (there aren't exact English translations of these so you get my translations)
Four Consciousnesses talks about obeying the party, looking at the bigger picture. "更加緊密地團結在以習近平同志為核心的黨中央周圍，更加堅定地維護黨中央權威，更加自覺地在思想上政治上行動上同黨中央保持高度一致" which translates to "Unite more closely around the Party with Comrade Xi as the core, firmly safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee, and more consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in terms of ideology, politics and actions."
Four Confidences talks about being confident in "中國特色社會主義 Chinese style of Socialism", to believe that it is the only way to realize socialist modernization and create a better life for the people, and is the correct theory to guide the party and the people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Two Safeguards basically means to safeguard Xi Jinping as the core of the Party Central Committee and the entire party, and safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.
習近平思想 or "Xi Jinping thought" along with 毛澤東思想 "Maoism" are political courses you have to take during elementary, middle and high school. Their stance is to "入腦、入心、入魂", which means "Into the brain, heart, and soul".
This is a sample of their textbook for elementary students. The first chapter is literally called "我愛你中國 I love you China". The first paragraph is "在世界東方，有一個偉大的國家叫中國，她的全稱是中華人民共和國，她就是我們的祖國。我們都是中國人，我們每個人都深愛著祖國，就像習近平爺說的，"愛國，是人世間最深層、最持久的情感，是一個人立德之源、立功之本"。 " which translates to "In the east side of the world, there is a great country called China, full name People's Republic of China, and she is our motherland. We are all Chinese, and all of us love our motherland deeply. As Granddad Xi Jinping says: "Patriotism is the deepest and most lasting emotion in the world. It is the source of a person's morality and the foundation of his merits." "
They actually tested you for it during their GaoKao or National College Entrance Examination this year.
Not even people living in Canada can escape the patriotic courses, as a Chinese class in a high school in Richmond gave out a homework about the patriotic movie "我和我的祖國 My People My Country" (More accurately translated as Me and My Motherland).
From elementary school, or even kindergarten, kids have been taught the history of the Party, and are taught to sing patriotic/socialist songs.
"我們是共產主義接班人 We are the Communist successors" -Lyrics,
"我和我的祖國 Me and My Motherland" -Lyrics,
"閃閃紅星 Bright Red star" -Lyrics
are some examples. Translate them yourself.
R.I.P. this person's bedtime,lol.
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Sounds pretty cool tbh, wish we sang socialist songs instead of having to do the pledge of allegiance to the flag every morning
Add Maoism, Xi Thoughts, patriotism, nationalism, and a sprinkle of anti-Japanese stances to your curriculum, then worship and thank grandad Xi every day for providing such a perfect country, and you'd have a full course meal. Remember that the Party is always watching.
I've read through your earlier post and it doesn't really strike me as frightening or anything. It seems like standard kind of national mythology stuff that gets taught to kids no matter where they're from. What's the alternative? Is there a country on Earth that has an education curriculum amounting to "We suck and everything sucks. The government should be overthrown"?
Honestly what you described makes me kinda envious. It sounds cool, and it seems to have better outcomes. Kids in China outperform kids from my country in every metric from what I know, including stuff like understanding of civics, history, etc. Whereas when I was growing up I was told national mythology that makes excuses for genocide, like that pilgrims were friends with native americans, and that there were "kind" slave owners. I was continuously told the American Civil War was over a complex disagreement over civics, not slavery, and in fact the northern states started the war over jealously of the south's freedoms. The south which was a slave economy. I was told my state of Texas was justified in its war against Mexico for vague semblances of freedom and justice, even though the Texans were fighting to keep their slaves.
You did not just ignore the blatant chauvinism and idolization of the leader in my post and think it's "standard national mythology stuff that gets taught everywhere", let alone envy them.
You have your own problems in your country, doesn't mean that the rest of the world runs the same way, and China isn't immune to white-washing or downplaying history events either.
For example, "文化大革命 the Cultural Revolution" is something that they ~~downplay significantly~~ (Edit: I have educated myself, and depending on your elective courses in China, you could get textbooks that talk very extensively about the event, and you could get ones that touch lightly on it) in their history textbooks. "六四事件 Tiananmen Square protest" does not appear in history textbooks. And then you can find discrepancies between how the PRC and ROC teaches their history during the war to gain power in China.
You can read a pretty good write up, albeit in Chinese, here
Edit: And don't get me started on their blind hatred towards Western countries and the Japanese which they even taught to schoolkids. Take the most recent news for example. When Japan decided to dump diluted nuclear waste water into the ocean, their people were livid, and the government does no help to educate their people about how it was diluted and tested by the IAEA, in which they have their own scholars attending too. Tons of fish gone to waste because people were boycotting Japanese cuisine, people panic buying salt in fear of radioactive contamination, video clips of people crying about it and swearing to kill all Japanese or bomb them with nuclear bombs, and teachers asking kids to write a letter to Japanese leaders to tell them what evil they have done. Video. All the while, China has been silencing people online who tried to explain the science, sent a journalist to Fukushima to test the numbers then take down videos of people who actually went and tested their own waters and found out that their numbers are higher than what their state media showed in Fukushima, and hidden their own official nuclear waste reports. Video
I've seen a Chinese history textbook for kids in high school and it's just generic history using a Marxist lens and framing the CPC as the current administrative body. They list accomplishments of the party, yeah, but that's because they have accomplishments they can point to.
It's a lot better than how my American school tried to get me to worship slave owners like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
And they also prohibit you from criticizing them if you don't agree with their policies. I definitely do not want to be forced to love a country that doesn't care what their people says.
Fuck that shit. Criticise. You are free to do so without the government knocking on your door, unlike in China.
Dude, this may be breaching opsec, but my comrades have had DEA and FBI knock on their doors because of affiliation with anarchist organizations and connection to BLM leadership. Please don't tell me what cops here do or what I have the freedom to do. I live here and I've seen people get arrested. Just last month an elderly guy was shot and killed in an FBI raid over a tweet.
We're free to criticize as long as we keep quiet about it and don't actually try anything. The place I live absolutely will kill people if need be. I'm definitely not free to be open and critical wherever I go. My boss will fire my ass if he knew my politics. I've been fired for unionizing attempts at previous jobs. Is that freedom? Freedom of speech without the freedom to do shit about it? I don't subscribe to this liberal horseshit of raising awareness or raising voices, or that my ability to say certain things is my greatest freedom. Fuck that, I would take a free house, comfortable existence, a better job, and healthcare if it meant never opening my mouth again. You understand me? I want to do shit now, actual physical things and topple this whole capitalist framework.
Damn. That's why I don't like the US any more than the CCP. You actually have a deep running problem.
But please do keep in mind that China isn't the solution a lot of you think to be.
I know China's not the solution, but rather the answer is movement within America that could learn from Chinese Marxists and apply their methodology within an American context. International collaboration is the answer, ending American imperialism is the answer, and a fully class conscious American working class willing to shed its nationalist chauvinism is the answer
That's a new vocabulary for me.
For sure. Blind patriotism is something that I definitely do not get, both in the US and China. It's stupid, alongside blind opposition to socialist policies like basic healthcare and livable wages. I sincerely hope the US improves on that in my lifetime.
I see that in Chinese propaganda too. I may be biased, since I live in the very country the US and China is trying to have an influence in. I could discuss with you about it, the nuances and my perspective of it, but it's way past my bedtime now and I have work tomorrow and other priorities, so I probably won't reply. You are free to message if you want.
I'm sure Fred Hampton would have agreed with you.