r/NewsWithJingjing • u/Repulsive-Basis6434 • Jun 03 '23
Media/Video This is unironically what Americans are taught about China
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u/TiltedHelm Jun 03 '23
Question 4 is meant to imply that China isn’t democratic because the President is selected by the National People’s Congress and not by direct popular vote (even though the US President is elected by the electoral college, not the popular vote).
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u/_Foy Jun 03 '23
Question 5
TRUE or FALSE: Biden, America's leader, was voted on by the American People.
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u/MaNbEaRpIgSlAyA Jun 03 '23
They didn’t even get the name right. FIFY
TRUE or FALSE: Joe, America’s leader, was voted on by the American People.
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u/Big-Surround5252 Jun 07 '23
“USA”’s leader. As an American from an entire different country and hemisphere, I’d love it if people didn’t keep spreading the neo-colonial mindset that enables them to pretend they’re the entire continent.
That’s the kind of thing that enables them to say things like “Latin America is the USA’s backyard”, or, more recently “not the backyard, but the front yard”, like it’s any better.
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u/alex_respecter Jun 03 '23
Mfers when people didn’t even want Biden, they just don’t want trump
commence 8 years of stupid back and forth between trump and Biden
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u/fpslover321 Jun 03 '23
i’m not too educated on the matter but the national people’s congress are still beholden to the choice of the people though right? or something along those lines
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u/PVEntertainment Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
Iirc the national congress is made up of delegates sent by the various regional congresses under it, which are themselves made up of delegates from the local congresses under them until you get to the individual commune level. The national congress then selects one of its members to serve as president.
There's a couple degrees of separation between the national congress and the people, but it is made up of elected delegates which were selected for service by other elected delegates.
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Jun 03 '23
Parliament is who chooses the PM too in parliamentary processes. So the people of the UK don’t really vote for their head of state, right?
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u/FiIthy_Anarchist Jun 03 '23
In westminster systems the party is elected, and its leader becomes PM. The leader is elected by their party.
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Jun 04 '23
The UK's head of state is the monarch, who is completely unelected and unaccountable (obviously).
The PM is the head of the British government, but can still be unilaterally dismissed by the monarch at any time.
This applies to other commonwealth nations too (although the actual process is undertaken by the monarchy's representative in those countries, who is the Governor General), this famously happened in Australia in 1975, when Gough Whitlam (Australia's elected PM) was unilaterally dismissed by John Kerr, the governor general at the time.
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Jun 04 '23
I know. I’m just saying even their system isn’t really democratic and British people don’t even get to vote for their head of state or government.
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u/General_Guisan Jun 03 '23
Their brainwashing is quite astonishing..
Regarding their "democratic election", where literally it's all about some 10k "swing voters" in a few of their states, and nothing else, vs. China where the party itself is only in power because their politics are actually good for the people. I wonder what's the more democratic system...
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u/Narrow-Mud-3540 Jun 04 '23
Is this actually real from an American school?
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u/Fun-Squirrel7132 Jun 03 '23
Which one of these American Norms is True?
- It is normal that you can get shot for going shopping at the mall with your family. And everyone dies. For no reason.
- it is normal for a completely random stranger to barge in to this school right now and shoot you for absolutely no reason.
- It is normal to call the cops for help but they end up shooting you instead because of the way you look.
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u/talionpd Jun 03 '23
I think that's something widely taught in America, Europe and some anti-china countries. Similarly Americans and Europeans are always told Japan is the best Asian country but maybe half of them know nothing about Japanese culture and would never go there. Interestingly these people would often upvote everything about Japan on reddit and defend shits they don't know about.
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u/sabaping Jun 03 '23
We dont even learn about Japan's history. Its just said that they were in the axis powers but not why or really why any of the axis powers were in the war. Same with the USSR being with the allies,... i was super confused by this as a kid because we learn the USSR is an evil dictatorship but they fought against the nazis?? Then we learn America came in and got all the nazis out of japan's government and made it into a utopia /hj
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u/GBOY200710 Jun 03 '23
We learned japan joined wwii as an axis power because they were “anti-imperialist” like my teacher in christ ??? lmao
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u/fritterstorm Jun 03 '23
The Japanese saw themselves as anti-imperialist in regards to European imperialism in Asia, maybe that's what teacher meant.
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u/the_PeoplesWill Jun 03 '23
Nothing says anti-imperialist like brutalizing Korean and Chinese denizens through sex slaves and a literal torture factory via Unit 731.
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u/fritterstorm Jun 03 '23
I don’t disagree. As bad as Europeans were, Japanese were so much worse.
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u/Pinkhellbentkitty7 Jun 13 '23
Dontcha worry - everything Japanese did to Asian nations, Nazi coalition did to Jews, Sinti/Romas and Slavs. Sex slavery? Check, Poland is still keeping silent about it because the government's chauvinist mind doesn't accept that rape exists. Medical experiments? Boy oh boy, who do you think were the first "lab rats" for penicillin?
Now, let's consider all the ways whites destroyed Qing China AND hurt the population....
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u/GBOY200710 Jun 03 '23
I suppose that would make a lot more sense, but he never pointed that out and none of our class materials suggested that it was in their viewpoint, so thank you for clarifying that.
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u/exoriare Jun 03 '23
Japan's constitution was imposed on them by the US, so Japan's success reinforces the idea that the US is a benevolent power bringing peace and prosperity.
Similarly, S Korea would not exist were it not for US military involvement. They were a dictatorship then, but gradually reformed into a democracy. This again stands as proof of US good intentions. Taiwan ran a similar course.
The US can't take credit for the success of any other Asian society, so they are seen as wholly "other".
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u/the_PeoplesWill Jun 03 '23
ROK and ROC are hardly democratic. Both began as military dictatorships and transitioned into bourgeois dictatorships as the USA pumped billions of dollars into their economy. Despite this South Korea and Taiwan both have incredibly low approval ratings for their presidents and government. Just like in the USA. Wonder why that is?
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u/hero-ball Jun 03 '23
Question 4: TRUE 🥱 next
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u/Tashathar Jun 03 '23
It's false, but not because the implication the PRC's undemocratic is true. It is accurate that the people didn't vote him in directly, which isn't the indication of anything, but that's the answer to whether the people of China voted for Xi, that wasn't the question. Since he's a person and not a policy, he can't be voted on.
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u/Koryo001 Jun 03 '23
TRUE or FALSE: Charles, England's leader, was voted on by the people of England.
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u/I-Sleep-At-Work Jun 03 '23
What course is this...
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u/LockSport74235 Jun 03 '23
It might be a Community college International relations class. The Section/course# is 62927 so maybe you can find it if you search deep in college class schedules. The site is Canvas so the domain name is ilearn.[collegename].edu.
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u/junkmailforjared Jun 03 '23
From the bookmarks bar, I'd guess Blalack Middle school. Makes sense it's a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
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u/LockSport74235 Jun 03 '23
It makes sense since the laptop that the test is being taken in is a Chromebook telling by the browser test mode and the Chrome OS function keys.
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u/egamIroorriM Jun 03 '23
the third question literally came straight out of a yeonmi park meme
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u/GuevaraTheComunist Jun 04 '23
and i still cant even guess which one is supposed to be the right one
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u/Commercial_Data8481 Jun 08 '23
Neither, they technically did, but it could easily be rigged if xi wasn't winning.
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u/maomao05 Jun 03 '23
What class is this ?
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u/LockSport74235 Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
It might be a Community college International relations class. The Section/course# is 62927 so maybe you can find it if you search deep in college class schedules. The site is Canvas so the domain name is ilearn.[collegename].edu.
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u/junkmailforjared Jun 03 '23
Based on the bookmarks bar, I'd guess it's a history class at Blalack Middle school near Dallas, Texas.
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u/Middle_Path8675309 Jun 03 '23
The only way you can vote for the Australian leader is if he happens to reside in your electorate.
The party decides the leader here too.
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u/scalability Jun 08 '23
Reminds me of that joke:
After the cold war, a former KGB agent met up with a former CIA agent to drink and reminisce about the good old days.
The CIA agent says "I was always really impressed by Soviet and now Russian propaganda. You sure know how to sway public opinion."
"Thanks", the KGB agent says, "we do our best. But truly, nothing compares to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent is taken aback. "Thank you, but I believe there's been a misunderstanding. There is no propaganda in America."
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u/Jezon Jun 07 '23
You don't want to know what Chinese kids are being taught
https://news.yahoo.com/earth-happening-bizarre-chinese-summer-093515197.html
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u/slurple91 Jun 03 '23
Where is this from? Has anyone taken the time to cite the source? This comment section seems extremely lazy.
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u/the_PeoplesWill Jun 03 '23
Only a total jagoff sees this and believes it isn't real. Needless to say to presume western countries aren't vehemently brainwashing their youth because you don't have a direct source is purposely overlooking the obvious. Just look to all the sensationalist narratives on the news. Why wouldn't one of the most indoctrinated countries in the world start young?
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u/Zemirolha Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
it seems real on our narrative, but is our mainstream narrative the best "real possible narrative" to live/believe in?
I mean, considering both american and chinese govs do not foccus theirs efforts on end of aging and end of deaths by natural causes, can they be trusted? Same applies with others govs too, of course, like Russia, Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Iran, Japan,natives tribes... All of them are ignorant or liars. How can all of them be suicidals? We need transparency on ours goals and this will lead on a rational behavioring
I mean: maybe americans are just trolling chineses and chineses are just trolling americans. Or, at least, both think they are doing it...
Americans have poker face; chineses can change masks faster than anyone else
It is impossible having certain
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u/mariosin Jun 04 '23
For Question 3, what the hell is the right answer?
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u/LigottiKnows Jun 07 '23
As a lipless candy addict, with the scars to prove it, I'd just like to say that I love me some miaomiao soup. It's my aggressive slurping of this soup which lost me my lips in the first place.
Here's my favorite song about dinner
/s
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u/Tashathar Jun 03 '23
TRUE or FALSE: Justin, Canada's leader, was voted on by the people of Canada.
TRUE or FALSE: Olaf, Germany's leader, was voted on by the people of Germany.
TRUE or FALSE: Rishi, England's leader, was voted on by the people of England.
I make the same joke every time I see this posted, because every part of the question is that stupid.