China says no room for 'western values' in university education

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China’s education minister has vowed to ban university textbooks which promote “western values”, state media said, in the latest sign of ideological tightening under President Xi Jinping.


“Never let textbooks promoting western values appear in our classes,” minister Yuan Guiren said, according to a report late Thursday by China’s official Xinhua news agency.


“Remarks that slander the leadership of the Communist Party of China” and “smear socialism” must never appear in college classrooms, he added according to Xinhua.


China’s universities are run by the ruling Communist party, which tightly controls discussions of history and other topics it construes as a potential threat to its grip on power.




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[WLDB]

meh, no surprise there.

 

[bill barilko]

A nasty nasty bunch.

 

[taxslave]

And to think some people would like socialism here.

 

[petros]

What are they going to do about the tens of thousands who come to Canada for University?

 

[taxslave]

Send them to reeducation camps, assuming they ever go back to china.

 

[gopher]

China has adopted some form of capitalism and it is working quite well there. So much for those who criticize Western values.

 

[darkbeaver]

The Chinese are being generous there are no values in the west and there is no culture. There's a lot of TV and bagged crap though.

 

[CDNBear]

Hey, that's neat. They're adopting the same philosophy as some Canadian universities.

 

[taxslave]

The Chinese are being generous there are no values in the west and there is no culture. There's a lot of TV and bagged crap though.

Well unlike communist countries we don't have fences and guards keeping our citizens in so you can leave any time.

 

[darkbeaver]

Well unlike communist countries we don't have fences and guards keeping our citizens in so you can leave any time.

You are illinformed slave. We live right next door to the biggest per capita prison population on the planet and those inmates are slaved out to private enterprise. You'll be leaving long before I will.

 

[mentalfloss]

I think this is a perfect example of why government needs to have a positive influence on social values.

I think we've pretty much proven that being more social libertarian (than this at least) is better for society.

 

[darkbeaver]

I think this is a perfect example of why government needs to have a positive influence on social values.

I think we've pretty much proven that being more social libertarian (than this at least) is better for society.

How is it possible to trust government to produce a positive influence on social values when it listens exclusivly to camps alien to this society? In this respect of social values the market also rules and delivers and perverts those values nurtured in the electorate by that same electorate. We in the west have abandoned building and binding these values from the grassroots up and have fallen dumb to TV and bling fests. Our progress in social libertarian practice thus far has brought us to the brink of ruin and global war all because of an internationalist one size fits all social awarness, Je Suis Puke.

 

[taxslave]

How is it possible to trust government to produce a positive influence on social values when it listens exclusivly to camps alien to this society? In this respect of social values the market also rules and delivers and perverts those values nurtured in the electorate by that same electorate. We in the west have abandoned building and binding these values from the grassroots up and have fallen dumb to TV and bling fests. Our progress in social libertarian practice thus far has brought us to the brink of ruin and global war all because of an internationalist one size fits all social awarness, Je Suis Puke.

Just think how much worse it would be with a socialist government.

 

[darkbeaver]

Just think how much worse it would be with a socialist government.

It is socialist though and of the worst kind. Socialism for the rich democrazy for the rest.

 

[Kreskin]

Western values? What are Western values? Shopping at Walmart? Texting while drinking a grande pike?

 

[mentalfloss]

How is it possible to trust government to produce a positive influence on social values when it listens exclusivly to camps alien to this society? In this respect of social values the market also rules and delivers and perverts those values nurtured in the electorate by that same electorate. We in the west have abandoned building and binding these values from the grassroots up and have fallen dumb to TV and bling fests. Our progress in social libertarian practice thus far has brought us to the brink of ruin and global war all because of an internationalist one size fits all social awarness, Je Suis Puke.

It's not about trust, it's simply about the ability a government has to give it's people more freedoms.

You can actually have that in a communist state - though I would agree that it's so improbable that democracy is always the better way.

 

[Sons of Liberty]

China has adopted some form of capitalism and it is working quite well there. So much for those who criticize Western values.

Of course you're right, because earning $1.80 an hour for the average factory worker is the type of capitalism that we should implement here.

 

[BaalsTears]

I don't blame the Chinese Communist Party. Western values of this era are coarse, degenerant, and unrefined. Besides, not all peoples are meant to experience individual liberty as conceived in the West. Individual liberty can only exist within a specific societal and institutional context.

 

[darkbeaver]

It's not about trust, it's simply about the ability a government has to give it's people more freedoms.

You can actually have that in a communist state - though I would agree that it's so improbable that democracy is always the better way.

The government gives nothing to the people, the government does what the people tell it to do, this is the basis of democracy, today that responsibility cannot be exercised because of the appauling education of the last hundred years foisted upon the electorate by the lids and suits. We have been rendered usless witless and hopeless by a century and more of rubbish schoolin. Democrasy can only be as effective as it's participants wits allow it. We have been rendered witless by capital. It's not capitals fault.