China Orders Universities to Ban Textbooks 'Promoting Western Values'

[ChineseTiger1986]

China is not the native lands of Chinese who were invaders from Africa.

You guys always whine about how the 'Islamists' are taking over Europe.

While you have double standard when it comes to China to defend its traditional values.

 

[Koovie]

So what? I am supporting Canada and USA to keep their western values, but why I have to support the incursion of the western values in China?

Why the modern day western values have been so aggressively promoted by those extremists? Stand with me or you are against me.

IDK what was standing in those books, but taking very drastic measures like these and preventing people from getting information about all cultures, views etc seems pretty extremist to me.

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Why the modern day western values have been so aggressively promoted by those extremists? Stand with me or you are against me.

That just sounded pretty extremist...

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Anyway,this is stupid,if you want to ban Western values you should also ban the internet,computers,electricity,cars,satellites,TV,nuclear power,etc,etc........The hypocrites should go all the way.

The technology does not equal the ideology.

Then the West should not use China's paper invention for hundred of years.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

So what do you define by multiculturalism? How far can it go for you? And is banning books which include notions of other views part of it? (How does China define "books promoting western values" anyways?)

Multiculturalism is the opposite of the American "melting pot" (assimilation) concept.

Instead of assimilation (melting pot), Multiculturalism is referred to as a "Salad bowl" where people maintain their original culture.

It is common in Western societies apart from America.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

IDK what was standing in those books, but taking very drastic measures like these and preventing people from getting information about all cultures, views etc seems pretty extremist to me.


That just sounded pretty extremist...

China has never forced the westerners to adopt the Chinese values.

 

[prashantazazel]

western culture stands for freedom of speech, democracy, rationality, multi culturism, equality before law - you must be a very strange person to dislike all of these....

 

[flamer84]

The technology does not equal the ideology.

Then the West should not use China's paper invention for hundred of years.

The West didn't "ban" you.....just that nobody bothered to adopt your customs.See the diference ?

When you're so worried and high and mighty about your culture than stick to your culture instead of being hypocrites and only choosing what you need.Live in "modern" China without Western "contraptions".

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

western culture stands for freedom of speech, democracy, rationality, multi culturism, equality before law, rationality - you must be a very strange person to dislike all of these....

The question is, why throw away your own values, in favor of foreign ones?

Will the West throw away their values and accept Russian values?

No, they prefer to keep their own values. Same as us.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Multiculturalism is the opposite of the American "melting pot" (assimilation) concept.

Instead of assimilation (melting pot), Multiculturalism is referred to as a "Salad bowl" where people maintain their original culture.

It is common in Western societies apart from America.

There is nobody putting a gun to people's heads in America telling them not to maintain their original culture.
Same as nobody is putting a gun to people's heads in China saying the same thing.

 

[Itachi]

You don't studies abroad without adapt to the host culture, you can't force the school in the west to be open in Christmas Day because you culture don't celebrated Christmas. You can't bribe the judge if you commit a crime the way you used government connection to fight the criminal charge. You can't drive drunk or buy alcohol for underage like you do in your country without serious punishment from the court. You allow to call Obama a nigg6r without criminal charge.

I first I can easily counter because of my faith in my culture and religion. All of your other points are your bias, I can't "bribe a judge in my country". You watching too much propaganda shows/movies??

But, if I was a millionaire in America, I could easily do that.

Why would I buy Alcohol?? I am a Muslim. Another reason why you don't even know what your talking about!
Get off this site and smell the air!

I can call Obama whatever I want. Where is my "Freedom Of Speech"?? Did it go down the drain?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

There is nobody putting a gun to people's heads in America telling them not to maintain their original culture.
Same as nobody is putting a gun to people's heads in China saying the same thing.

Sure, no one is putting a gun at anyone's head.

But is it wrong for us to maintain or own values?

Will America have Russian textbooks, and throw away their values in favor of Russian values? Remember the Red Scare?

Or will they keep their own values?

That's exactly what we are trying to do.

 

[flamer84]

The question is, why throw away your own values, in favor of foreign ones?

Will the West throw away their values and accept Russian values?

No, they prefer to keep their own values. Same as us.

Just face it dude,you're living off the West,all of this planet does,waiting for them to invent something new,better,to improve our lives while you moan about it but at the same time embrace it.Yes,yes,you've invented fire crackers 2000 years ago...yawn.


As for your question,maybe the West will,when Russia will bring something new to the table of humanity,something extraordinary to influence peoples lives....you know,like the West did for this WHOLE PLANET.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Sure, no one is putting a gun at anyone's head.

But is it wrong for us to maintain or own values?

Will America have Russian textbooks, and throw away their values in favor of Russian values? Remember the Red Scare?

Or will they keep their own values?

That's exactly what we are trying to do.

Oh so you are backing down from your claim that the US does not support a "Salad bowl" multiculturalism..or just evading it with a tangent?

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The West didn't "ban" you.....just that nobody bothered to adopt your customs.See the diference ?

When you're so worried and high and mighty about your culture than stick to your culture instead of being hypocrites and only choosing what you need.Live in "modern" China without Western "contraptions".

Seriouly, if the western nations wanna ban the spread of the Chinese values in the West, then I have no problem with it.

The US has just banned the Confucius institutes, and did you hear me saying a word about it?

China also has the same right to maintain the Chinese society to have purely the Chinese values.

As for your question,maybe the West will,when Russia will bring something new to the table of humanity,something extraordinary to influence peoples lives....you know,like the West did for this WHOLE PLANET.

Forget about it, Putin now is more interested about China's pragmatism than the western fanaticism.

 

[Koovie]

The question is, why throw away your own values, in favor of foreign ones?

What are your "own" values? Values and cultures have been mixing since centuries. Its nothing that only came with the advent of globalization (the recent one... globalization isnt anything new either). There is no "pure" culture that traces back to the stone age. Thats what makes human civilization.
The only difference is that this process is happening faster than ever due to technological, economic and political factors and it seems that all this happens a little bit too fast for some people.