Shanghaiist: Chinese nationalism and indoctrination 101

Niko77

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:09:52 +0700

My god...that's really agressive against France... They actually say "destroy France"

Pete

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:55 +0700

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.

Olivier Falcoz

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:16:52 +0700

And the French, as usual, will not hear about this nor understand...

rado

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:43:12 +0700

things like this make it harder to defend china... damn

nanheyangrouchuan

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:08:49 +0700

China's aggressive rise will prompt the world to react and put it down.

YangBang

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:48:00 +0700

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.

Pirx

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:07:03 +0700

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.

Andy Best

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:33:51 +0700

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 :)