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[igorG]

So, how do the "forbidden topics" affect a country's system, its population's development, its education? Authorities have a chance to control the public opinion, the nation develops to the taste of a few people, and schools multiply, quadruply new generations of "obedient soldiers". The education becomes a rigid institution, which only yields to a few and prepares for a little. Innovations are hard to come and counterfeiting becomes a common practice. The nation evolves into an isolation with little possibility to connect with the rest of the cultures/nations in the world.

However, such an isolation is interestingly broken by the increasingly larger numbers of youngsters that pay their way for further studies abroad. How those youngsters deal with "forbidden topics" abroad is a phenomenom. Listening to the complaints of local UK, Canadian or American students about the narrow-minded youngsters is one thing, and seeing those very same students graduate is another.

Regardless of what happens, i am still pleased i can share my views out of my isolation in the country, and that thanks to Daves.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

[Silent Shadow]

[mrwslee003]

In case the point is missed:

The "love" for China is shared together between the "yesmen" and those
who say "critical" things about the Chinese establishment in essence are
on the same side of the fence. Therefore the fight and animosity the
present establishment shows toward the second group is a waste of time
and energy, just like Mao against Deng for many years.

The waste of time, human resourses, & energy during the Cultural Revolution was such a colossal undertaking. And it is still continuing,
every day!

Will someone be capable enough to see that six is equal to half a dozen,
Soon?