As if we didn't have the same here in AmeriKa.
"School courses protested in Hong Kong; Lessons called brainwashing" by Andrew Higgins | Washington Post, July 30, 2012
HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of protesters paraded through Hong Kong on Sunday waving placards denouncing ‘‘brainwashing’’ by China’s ruling Communist Party and calling for the scrapping of plans for ‘‘national education’’ courses in local schools.
It's a Zionist Jew curriculum that holds sway in AmeriKa.
The protest, organized by groups of teachers, parents, and students, as well as local political organizations hostile to Beijing’s one-party system, demonstrated deep opposition to the introduction of classes that aim to boost knowledge of and attachment to China in this freewheeling former British colony of 7.2 million.
China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong 15 years ago in a blaze of fireworks and patriotic fervor. It granted the metropolis a high degree of autonomy as a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, but has grown frustrated that many in Hong Kong, though ethnically Chinese, do not identify with the rest of the country, under Communist rule since 1949.
Though increasingly dependent economically on mainland China, Hong Kong, according to a recent poll by Hong Kong University, now has less trust in the central government in Beijing than at any time since the 1997 handover. Separate polls show that bonds of shared identity with the rest of China have become weaker, not stronger.
Isn't it amazing how the Chinese mirror Americans?
In an effort to narrow the gap, which has led to ugly outbursts of insulting rhetoric and occasional clashes, the Hong Kong government wants students to learn more about the mainland Chinese. It has proposed courses to instruct pupils about China’s political system, geography, and history.
Protesters Sunday decried these steps as brainwashing. Protest placards borrowed lyrics from ‘‘Another Brick in the Wall,’’ a song by the British rock group Pink Floyd: ‘‘We don’t need no thought control. Leave them kids alone.’’
Ah, the memories.
A group of parents and children had a poster reading: ‘‘Our previous generations came here to escape the Communist Party, don’t let the next generation return to the grip of the demon.’’
‘‘I’m Chinese but China is not the Communist Party,’’ said Cyrus Chan, a 16-year-student in a Roman Catholic high school. He said he joined the rally Sunday because he thinks national education will be a form of political indoctrination focused on party achievements and blind to catastrophes that claimed tens of millions of Chinese lives in the 1950s and ’60s.
Isn't all "education?"
‘‘Germans are taught about Nazi crimes. They know what happened. In China, students only learn how to praise the party,’’ he said.
It's amazing that the Nazis always get top billing even though communists like Stalin and Mao murdered way more.
Ever hear of Lazar Kaganovich or Genrikh Yagoda, readers?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Hong Kong officials deny that the new courses — scheduled to begin in primary schools later this year and secondary schools in 2013 — will mimic ‘‘patriotic education’’ teaching on the mainland, which, mostly silent on the Party’s bloody past, instills fervent nationalism rooted in a deep sense of victimhood.
Must be based on the Israeli model.
‘‘Brainwashing is against Hong Kong’s core values, we would not support or accept that,’’ Hong Kong’s Education Secretary Eddie Ng said.
National education was first proposed for Hong Kong in 2010 and prompted a storm of protest. Anger calmed after a lengthy period of public consultation and assurances by the government that it would not dictate content.
But fury flared again recently after the publication of a new government-funded textbook, ‘‘The China Model.’’ The text, prepared by a pro-Beijing organization, describes the Communist Party as ‘‘selfless and united,’’ and presents it as an indispensable agent for stability and success.
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Ever notice reading the paper is like an AmeriKan classroom?
"Hong Kong residents increase pressure against ‘brainwashing’ curriculum" Associated Press, September 08, 2012
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government calls it national education. But parents, teachers, and pupils in the former British colony call it ‘‘brainwashing’’ and fear it is a ploy by Beijing authorities to indoctrinate the city’s young into unquestioning support of China’s Communist Party.
That's what education is, and am I ever getting tired of a pot-hollering-kettle media.
Plans by the government to introduce the classes have triggered mass protests and hunger strikes, the latest sign of the widening gulf between Beijing and the freewheeling semi-independent southern Chinese financial center, 15 years after Britain handed it back to China.
The dispute deepened as classes started this week, with activists including a handful of hunger-strikers camping out in front of Hong Kong government headquarters in a bid to force officials to drop plans to introduce the subject in primary and secondary schools.
They have been joined each evening by thousands of protesters wearing black. A local television station fanned the flames when it called the activists a ‘‘destructive faction’’ controlled by London and Washington.
The protests are starting to have that controlled-opposition feel, yeah.
The protesters are afraid of what they see as underhanded attempts to indoctrinate the city’s next generation with Beijing-style nationalist education classes used in schools all over China to inculcate support for the Communist government.
They should try sitting through an AmeriKan history class.
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Here is confirmation of my suspicions and a furthering of your education:
"Hong Kong officials delay unpopular education program" September 09, 2012
HONG KONG — Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for ‘‘moral and national education’’ amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination, Hong Kong’s chief executive backpedaled somewhat Saturday and revoked a 2015 deadline for every school to start teaching the subject.
But the protesters were not mollified, demanding that the education plan be withdrawn entirely....
Feels like a western intelligence attempt at destabilization.
A very large crowd, estimated at 120,000 by organizers and 36,000 by the police, had formed Friday evening, and many protesters spent the night.
Legislative elections were scheduled for Sunday. Public animosity toward the education plan could hurt pro-Beijing candidates at the polls. Hong Kong officials drafted the plan over the past 10 years to instill patriotic fervor for mainland China.
For the past 10 days, swelling protests against the plan were the latest sign of a new interest in political activism by youths here, and there were some signs that this activism could be spreading in mainland China for the first time since the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
That is all I needed to realize these are stage agitations by western interests. All you need do is compare it to the insulting coverage given by AmeriKa's equivalent, the Occupy movement.
People in their 40s and older had seemed to predominate in many street demonstrations on the mainland, as families kept younger members at home until the past few months for fear that political activism would damage their chances of finding jobs and becoming breadwinners.
Chinese kids just like Americans!
But in Shifang, a city in Sichuan province in western China, a groundbreaking ceremony on June 29 for a vast copper smelting plant set off three nights of protests by tens of thousands of youths worried that the plant would cause severe pollution.
That's a LITTLE DIFFERENT than protesting educational propaganda. So why is the AmeriKan media lumping it in with.... oh, never mind.
On Friday afternoon in Shifang, residents at shops and sidewalk cafes described battles that pitted young people against the police in the square around a clock tower in the city’s center.
Alerted through the Internet, youths had poured in from neighboring communities in a rare, and new, example of intercity coordination by protesters.
So who was helping them, huh?
The police initially detained 21 protesters but released them a day later as the crowds swelled.
The smelting project itself has been canceled and shows no sign of being restarted, several Shifang residents said, adding that the city had been completely quiet ever since the protests.
Though the Shifang demonstrations appeared to be an isolated example of youth protests on the mainland, young people are heavy users of the Internet in China.
Yes, the activism is spreading, but.... sigh.
And a tone of sarcastic contempt for the authorities is evident in many of their postings, despite censors’ efforts to remove, within hours, any that violate their guidelines.
They have been reading my blog?
The protests in Hong Kong, a former British colony returned to China in 1997, have been somewhat similar to the much larger Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989.
Large numbers of students have been flocking to public spaces in front of many government buildings, staging sit-ins and, in some cases, hunger strikes.
Also like the Tiananmen Square protesters, the Hong Kong students have been protesting corruption, particularly a widespread perception here that government officials have become too close to the city’s tycoons by accepting yacht trips while in office and discounted apartments and highly paid jobs after retirement.
Turns out Chinese politics are the SAME AS OURS, Amerikans!
Ain't that a kick in the head, huh?
The Hong Kong protesters have even put up a ‘‘goddess of democracy’’ statue that resembles the Statue of Liberty, similar to the statue used by students during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
All controlled opposition, as the favorable press also indicates.
A rumor spread Friday that the government had sent provocateurs here to create disturbances that would give the police a pretext to disperse the crowd.
Okay, THAT DOES IT! I really am sick of the RANK AmeriKan media.
What you must begin to realize is EVERYTHING the GOVERNMENT MOUTHPIECE accuses our enemies of is actually something of which THEY THEMSELVES are GUILTY!
The government issued a rare statement to deny the rumor, and Leung took pains on Saturday to deny it again.
‘‘I asked the police that they must not clear the site,’’ he said, adding that he had even asked that umbrellas and raincoats be sent out to protesters during a midnight deluge.
Although the students did not appear satisfied with Leung’s announcement, it nonetheless represented a concession and could be seen as a sign of weakness by the Beijing officials who appointed him after his selection by a committee of 1,200 prominent Hong Kong residents that included many Beijing allies.
The national education curriculum — contemporary Chinese history with a heavy dose of nationalism and a favorable interpretation of the Communist Party’s role — was originally supposed to be phased in school by school starting with the academic year that began last Monday.
That's the kind of education I received.
But currently, only a handful of schools have begun teaching the subject.
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And you know what is always important in AmeriKan history books?
"Hong Kong pro-China faction gains" Associated Press, September 11, 2012
HONG KONG — Election results released Monday gave an edge to the pro-China faction in Hong Kong’s legislature, where power is split between those aligned with Beijing and those who favor further democratic changes.
The protests look more than ever driven by western agents and assets.
The prodemocratic parties, however, retained enough of a majority to veto any proposed changes to the former British colony’s constitution.
"Enough of a majority to veto" means they are a minority, right?
What is with the twisted word games, shit media?
Many expected that Hong Kong’s broad array of prodemocracy parties would make big gains with support from people increasingly frustrated with the semiautonomous Chinese city’s new Beijing-backed leader over a wide range of issues.
Large protests over plans to introduce patriotism classes in schools forced the government to back down on Saturday, the eve of the election. But the prodemocracy camp could not capitalize on the momentum because long-running feuds and rivalries prevented it from mounting a unified strategy, politicians and analysts said.
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At least the s*** media didn't holler rig job. That really would have been to much considering our electoral system, Americans.
