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A real picture from a Chinese school.
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Now, I know this isn't nearly as extreme, but just from reading this thread, I was reminded of a picture I saw on Wikipedia illustrating the article Education in Singapore. It was an ordinary picture of an assembly at first look. I clicked the thumbnail to see full sized. Eeek. It looked creepy now, all the children in the same uniforms, all the girls wore braids (note: I love braids and often wear them myself. I just think it's creepy when a whole school of girls does it at once.), all the boys had the same hair cut, a lot of the children wore glasses-and the glasses looked all the same. It dragged on for uncountable rows of little Singaporeans, a mass of little androids.

I located the pic now, and it doesn't seem as impressive as I remembered it, but it can't hurt to include it (hidden tags because it's a big pic):
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that is most likely fake. china isnt the communist totalitarian dictatorship everyone thinks it is

it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
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Yeah. Just scratch the "communist" part and you have an accurate description.

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05-04-2009 08:44 PM
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Fire Elf Wrote:Yeah. Just scratch the "communist" part and you have an accurate description.

no scratch all three words and you have an accurate description. My dad has traveled to china for work many times and has discovered the stories they say on the news are actually bullshit. They dont have the "great firewall" or absolute martial law.

it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
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The tourists don't have a great firewall, you mean. I've done some work circumventing the one the citizens have.

Carla Franklin has never denied that on the afternoon of the third of August 2006 she raped and killed sixteen children celebrating their friend's fifth birthday and forced their parents to share a dinner of their remains.


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assaultmedic Wrote:
Fire Elf Wrote:Yeah. Just scratch the "communist" part and you have an accurate description.

no scratch all three words and you have an accurate description. My dad has traveled to china for work many times and has discovered the stories they say on the news are actually bullshit. They dont have the "great firewall" or absolute martial law.
They prolly just don't have it in tourist places.

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I think they're trying to keep girls from hiding cheat sheets between their boobs.
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Damn communist bastards.

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Fire Elf Wrote:
assaultmedic Wrote:
Fire Elf Wrote:Yeah. Just scratch the "communist" part and you have an accurate description.

no scratch all three words and you have an accurate description. My dad has traveled to china for work many times and has discovered the stories they say on the news are actually bullshit. They dont have the "great firewall" or absolute martial law.
They prolly just don't have it in tourist places.

no, my dad worked in the cities there were the actual citizens worked in factories and lived. they werent subjected to cruel torturing sweatshop labor, they actually enjoy their lives lot better than us bitchy fatfuck americans can.

it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
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assaultmedic Wrote:no, my dad worked in the cities there were the actual citizens worked in factories and lived. they werent subjected to cruel torturing sweatshop labor, they actually enjoy their lives lot better than us bitchy fatfuck americans can.
There is documentation of Chinese civil rights abuses. I encourage you to look up cases like Shi Tao, houku system, and Falun Gong (they offer their kidneys for sale if you're interested). An estimated eight thousand people are executed in China yearly. Now look up the imprisonment statistics.

You know why the left was so hip in pre-war years? Many left-leaning intellectuals visited the USSR. Did they see anything like the USSR? No. Same with China. There's different things you see: as an urban dweller, as a rural farmer. As a citizen, as a foreigner.

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Puchiko Wrote:You know why the left was so hip in pre-war years? Many left-leaning intellectuals visited the USSR. Did they see anything like the USSR? No. Same with China. There's different things you see: as an urban dweller, as a rural farmer. As a citizen, as a foreigner.
This.

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china is a fascist state right down to the school.

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Perverted DSX would absolutely love to go to that school.

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China isn't really communist anymore, they just keep the Communist party in power to keep the title. In reality, they're opening "free market zones" and have even proposed giving special rights to wealthy businessmen to promote economic growth (listen to Mao spinning in his grave).

But the great firewall is real. The vast majority of Chinese students have never heard of the Tienanmen Square massacre, or that the Great Leap Forward resulted in 50 million deaths by starvation. Critics of the government can be arrested for sedition. And a nice little fun fact is that, since executed prisoners' organs can be donated to hospitals, more prisoners are given the death penalty when the demand for organs goes up.
And let's not forget the Sichuan earthquake. And how parents who criticized the government's shitty-constructed schools are being forcibly kept out of the media. China may not be a hive of stereotypical commie drones, but it's far from free.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
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EPIC BUMP OF EPICNESS
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CrayolaColours Wrote:But China is communist because that's what they told me in school. Oh wait...
Don't let school tell you what the world is about... my school still uses textbooks from before our country was founded.

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Fire Elf Wrote:
CrayolaColours Wrote:But China is communist because that's what they told me in school. Oh wait...
Don't let school tell you what the world is about... my school still uses textbooks from before our country was founded.
Hey, that's my quote!

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WTF MATE!?!?!?!?

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Puchiko Wrote:
Fire Elf Wrote:
CrayolaColours Wrote:But China is communist because that's what they told me in school. Oh wait...
Don't let school tell you what the world is about... my school still uses textbooks from before our country was founded.
Hey, that's my quote!
Well, i've never seen you use it...

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john tuttle Wrote:WTF MATE!?!?!?!?

It's time fur some shootin'!
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Lucky ass guy in the picture.

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Dude i need to get back to china *drools* Censored China rules Buttrock
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I wonder if that's Lesbian Orgy 101.
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A certain cheating method is to write the answers with washable ink on yourself, hidden by your clothes. I think that's what they are trying to prevent.
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