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If you've ever wondered how Chinese kids are being indoctrinated with nationalistic bullshit ideals from a young age, here's how. This video shows a class of elementary school students reciting a poem entitled 《2009中国加油》("2009, Go China!") written by their teachers on how a triumphant China is rising against earthquakes and the wiles of evil politicians like Nicolas Sarkozy in "pathetic Europe" with a successful Olympics, the launch of Shenzhou 7 and the "iron will" of its people. Watch it with the Chinese transliteration and English translation from China Digital Times after the jump, but be warned, this is spine-tingling and hair-raising stuff. We find it hard to think that teachers in cities like Shanghai or Beijing would make their kids do the same thing, but then again you never know.
2009, Go China!Lead: Snowstorm, freely falling down to earth, like western values
Lead: Despair fills the sky, ice covers the earthLead: Did China retreat?
All: No. The Olympics were a success! We are victorious!
Lead: Hot blood and iron will of Chinese people, lighten up the dark world like burning the holy flame
All: The rivers and mountains, ever more colorful and beautifulLead: Earthquakes, shifting back and forth like the positions of Sarkozy, with his dirty tricks, trying to shake the great China
Lead: Did China retreat?
All: No. The Shenzhou-7 launched. We are victorious!
Lead: Pathetic Europe will never stop the insurmountable force of our great dynasty
All: Just the aftershocks from the earthquake would destroy France!Lead: The happy flowers flourish in the oil fields on Tarim Basin
Lead: The suona [musical instrument] sings aloud in the Tawang district of the Himalayas
Lead: Historically accumulated resentment fill the Ryukyu Trench
All: Smiles in Sun Moon Lake became a miraculous flower in the Pacific OceanLead: Do not waver, do not slow down, do not make big changes
Lead: Do not change the flag, Do not turn back
All: Step ruthlessly over all anti-China forcesLead: The giant ship full of patches, raise up the brand new sail
All: Spirits are high, crash through the waves, the wind is at our back
Lead: 2009
All: Go China
Lead: 2009
All: China the Greatest《2009，中国加油》
甲：大雪，像西方的价值观，自由的飘洒，
乙：漫天哀愁，一地冰碴 !甲：中国退缩了吗？
全：没有！奥运成功了！我们胜利啦！
甲：炎黄坚毅的热血，如炽烈的圣火，燃烧灰暗的世界，
全：万里江山，又嵌上五彩的画夹！甲：地震，像萨科奇的立场，用猥琐的伎俩，摇晃着巍巍中华。
甲：中国退缩了吗？
全：没有！神七飞天了！我们胜利啦！
甲：瘦瘦的欧罗巴，挡不住天朝的金戈铁马，
全：地震的余波也能把法兰西催垮！甲：塔里木的石油盛开幸福之花，
乙：达旺的唢呐奏响在喜马拉雅。
甲：中山世土的积怨填平了琉球海沟，
全：日月潭的微笑成为太平洋的奇葩！甲：不动摇、不懈怠、不折腾
乙：不改旗、不易帜、不回头
全：将反华者狠狠的踏在脚下甲：打满补丁的大船，挂上崭新的桅帆
全：乘风破浪，意气风发！
甲：2009
全：中国加油
甲：2009
全：中国最大
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It's not surprising, if, like me, you've worked in local schools. I've sat out in winter playgrounds watching kindergarten students doing a flag raising ceremony and elementary school in Shanghai have long had an annual anti-Japan day.
But, it's also not that surprising to anyone who's worked in education in general. People all over the world seem to have a lot of tolerance for nationalism. Flags and pledges are in U.S. schools right? I saw flags up in schools when I worked in Japan too.
Extreme ideologies like patriotism (allegiance to a political creation, the nation state)should be out of schools. Well, you know, anything can be in schools if we are studying it objectively, but not if we are just rote learning one particular version of it.
I was in Singapore for a bit also, I found the politics there to be equally intolerable. "Minister Mentor" indeed, and to his own son.
We need to get rid of countries pronto and live in Yurts :)
I am afraid they do the same in Shanghai.
In communist ideology, education can not be left to parents, society has to educate the ideal person. Indoctrination begins in kindergarden. Horrifying.
It is not about nationalism, it is about socialism. Nationalism is the vehicle to carry socialist ideals here, in order to perpetuate the one party rule.
Comparing this to American schooling displays a extremely shallow understanding of the inner workings here.
When you live in a poisoned Third-World kleptocracy that everyone is desperate to leave, you have to overcompensate by displaying your "pride" in that poisoned Third-World kleptocracy that everyone is desperate to leave. So, extreme nationalism in places like China is really more of a psychological phenomenon than a political one.
China's aggressive rise will prompt the world to react and put it down.
things like this make it harder to defend china... damn
And the French, as usual, will not hear about this nor understand...
The sun on the meadow is summery warm.
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
~Cabaret, 1972
More than any other, this movie captures the dizzy-dancing feel of life in a country that is hurtling toward madness. Buy the pirated disk if you can find it. Sobering stuff.
My god...that's really agressive against France... They actually say "destroy France"