That section about how the teacher teaches different students is very reminiscent of a section in the Passover seder, where it lists four types of children and says how to educate each type about the story of Passover (the four types being the wise child, the wicked (or, in some translation, thoughtless) child, the simple child, and the child who doesn't know how to ask)
> Boxer Indemnities, that any country that spends the compensation will become addicted to drugs.
The United States returned its portion of the Boxer Indemnity in 1907. This is how Tsinghua University (and several other elite universities) were founded. The US also refused to take territory in China despite being offered it by the Eight Nations Alliance. This fact seems totally unknown in China. It seems like it's important to some sense of national pride that the United States humiliated them. Which just didn't happen historically. The US has a colonialist past in the Philippines, Cuba, etc. But not in China.
Sometimes I feel like a lot of this way of thought was developed to oppose Europeans and then sloppily repurposed to talk about Americans. If you want to say the British repeatedly invaded and humiliated China then that is true. But the Americans are not the British. The US was actually on China's side in most of those wars.
I know, right? Honestly, the US really did its absolute best to build friendly relations with China. Even after the PLA invaded their embassy, tore down their flag, and shot at their embassy workers, they still made another attempt to reach out to the communist party higher ups. America was honestly, sincerely trying to be China's friend. :(
But yeah, even the word 欧美 in Chinese, which I generally translate as "the west", is a combination of Europe+America. They're considered the same thing. People don't really bother to notice a difference, and a lot of generalisations get thrown around like "the west does this", "the west does that". Like, I'm not sure people realise how America (and Europe) very much identify as very different from each other. Or how different countries in Europe are from each other. They just kind of assume that if Europe does something, America's totally in support of it. If America does anything, Europe is totally in support of it.
That section about how the teacher teaches different students is very reminiscent of a section in the Passover seder, where it lists four types of children and says how to educate each type about the story of Passover (the four types being the wise child, the wicked (or, in some translation, thoughtless) child, the simple child, and the child who doesn't know how to ask)
> Boxer Indemnities, that any country that spends the compensation will become addicted to drugs.
The United States returned its portion of the Boxer Indemnity in 1907. This is how Tsinghua University (and several other elite universities) were founded. The US also refused to take territory in China despite being offered it by the Eight Nations Alliance. This fact seems totally unknown in China. It seems like it's important to some sense of national pride that the United States humiliated them. Which just didn't happen historically. The US has a colonialist past in the Philippines, Cuba, etc. But not in China.
Sometimes I feel like a lot of this way of thought was developed to oppose Europeans and then sloppily repurposed to talk about Americans. If you want to say the British repeatedly invaded and humiliated China then that is true. But the Americans are not the British. The US was actually on China's side in most of those wars.
I know, right? Honestly, the US really did its absolute best to build friendly relations with China. Even after the PLA invaded their embassy, tore down their flag, and shot at their embassy workers, they still made another attempt to reach out to the communist party higher ups. America was honestly, sincerely trying to be China's friend. :(
But yeah, even the word 欧美 in Chinese, which I generally translate as "the west", is a combination of Europe+America. They're considered the same thing. People don't really bother to notice a difference, and a lot of generalisations get thrown around like "the west does this", "the west does that". Like, I'm not sure people realise how America (and Europe) very much identify as very different from each other. Or how different countries in Europe are from each other. They just kind of assume that if Europe does something, America's totally in support of it. If America does anything, Europe is totally in support of it.
"虽然没有子宫但有不切实际的繁殖欲" is literally how I would describe every man I know who glibly talks about having kids as if they dropped out of the sky