I don’t remember where I heard it but I heard someone say that the average Chinese teenager who goes to school has a better political and material understanding of the world than the average American political science undergraduate student. I haven’t talked to Chinese teenagers but I have talked to American political “scientists” and I have no trouble believing that claim.
All you have to do is spend time on Chinese social media to discover that this sadly isn’t true. US PoliSci undergrads are definitely just being steeped in propaganda but teenagers are kind of all the same everywhere. They’re tired and they wanna watch some TV and take a nap.
When it comes to political education, most Chinese teens mostly just know basic parts of the curriculum which are tested on. That’s mostly national history, some basic terminology, and some national achievements. From talking to both average Chinese and a few committed Communist educators it really seems actual Marxist fundamentals are a subject that doesn’t have great knowledge retention compared to math or language skills.
I don’t remember where I heard it but I heard someone say that the average Chinese teenager who goes to school has a better political and material understanding of the world than the average American political science undergraduate student. I haven’t talked to Chinese teenagers but I have talked to American political “scientists” and I have no trouble believing that claim.
All you have to do is spend time on Chinese social media to discover that this sadly isn’t true. US PoliSci undergrads are definitely just being steeped in propaganda but teenagers are kind of all the same everywhere. They’re tired and they wanna watch some TV and take a nap.
When it comes to political education, most Chinese teens mostly just know basic parts of the curriculum which are tested on. That’s mostly national history, some basic terminology, and some national achievements. From talking to both average Chinese and a few committed Communist educators it really seems actual Marxist fundamentals are a subject that doesn’t have great knowledge retention compared to math or language skills.
Sources please?
Source: me talking to people in China.
Sources on this comment but not the first one?
That makes sense considering the whole point of the Political Science education is imparting permanent psychic damage.
I can believe it as well.