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axont@hexbear.net 8 months agoI’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.
falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You did not just ignore the blatant nationalistic 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 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