Hong Kong schools introduce 'Xi Jinping Thought' as new addition to curriculum: The Chinese leader's ideas are now mandatory for secondary students (www.newindianexpress.com)
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The teachings on the ideology of China’s leader are encased in a new subject now mandatory for secondary students, Citizenship, Economics and Society, first announced in 2022.

Hong Kong has introduced Xi Jinping Thought as a new addition to the curriculum for some students.

Xi has been the president of the People’s Republic of China since 2013.

The new school year began in Hong Kong this week.

The changes come alongside more lessons about national security and pro-Beijing patriotism, as the influence and control of China’s ruling Communist party increases in the semi-autonomous city, The Guardian reported.

The teachings on the ideology of China’s leader are encased in a new subject now mandatory for secondary students, Citizenship, Economics and Society, first announced in 2022.

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The new module instils “patriotic education” for all three years of secondary students, and its content is aimed at “cultivating students’ sense of nationhood, affection for our country and sense of national identity”, according to government-issued curriculum guidelines. Third form students are expected to learn about Xi Jinping Thought in a module on “our country’s political structure and participation in international affairs”. The guidelines recommend teachers spend 12 40-minute lessons on the module.

Xi’s personal political philosophy, officially called “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, was enshrined in China’s constitution in 2018. In 2021 it was introduced into mainland Chinese schools. The Xi teachings in the mainland curriculum appear on available information to be far more comprehensive that those introduced to Hong Kong. However it has still sparked alarm among some parents and citizens.

Hong Kong school enrolments have declined sharply in recent years, driven by low birthrates and an exodus of residents and expats in the wake of the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement and the imposition of tighter, pro-CCP social controls.

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That’s just embarrassing.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 05 Sep 2024 14:31 collapse

Reality has a well-known liberal bias, as Stephen Colbert used to say.

But for the guy behind MBFC, he does not seem to be embarrassed by his own bias.

ravhall@discuss.online on 05 Sep 2024 07:51 next collapse

Is it a TV show with a big yellow bear?

Can you imagine the shit storm “Kamala’s Thoughts” would rain.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub on 05 Sep 2024 08:50 collapse

And on the other side, Donald Trump owns a social network, and yet no shit storm.

How the fuck did ethics become so asymmetric?

ravhall@discuss.online on 05 Sep 2024 09:36 next collapse

I don’t see Brazil banning truth social.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 13:48 collapse

Because it’s a tiny echo chamber not worth the effort.

Twitter, on the other hand, is still widely used by the majority of nonfascist legacy media and other people who are hugely influential and should know better.

0x815@feddit.org on 05 Sep 2024 10:40 collapse

@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub

Whataboutism? Apart from the fact that it has nothing to do with the linked article, there has been a lot of, say, ‘not too positive’ reports about Trump’s social network.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub on 05 Sep 2024 16:42 collapse

Well my comment was a response to the comment above, not to the article, and in the context of “Kamala’s Thoughts” it is relevant.

ravhall’s point is good, that if a Democrat tried to share their ideology this way the response would be overwhelmingly negative. But on the other hand, we have “Truth Social” which might as well be labeled “Trump’s Thoughts” because he uses it as his personal soapbox. Political candidates owning social media companies should be illegal.

ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Sep 2024 07:58 next collapse

The world is going more and more towards 1984 book ideas. It was a warning, not a manual (like the author said).

Senseless@feddit.org on 05 Sep 2024 09:52 collapse

Same with Idiocracy. Welp.

Deceptichum@quokk.au on 05 Sep 2024 08:45 next collapse

The Little Book of Toilet Paper.

100@fedia.io on 05 Sep 2024 09:17 next collapse

imagine the size of an ego you need to even think of this

0x815@feddit.org on 05 Sep 2024 09:56 collapse

I guess if you are surrounded only by yes-sayers for too long, something like that may happen.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 05 Sep 2024 19:00 collapse

Mao won the Revolution, Deng figured out how to actually lift people out of poverty, Xi…

???

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 16:45 collapse

That’s because Deng had humility.

Xi has foreign bank accounts, which is apparently better.

innermeerkat@jlai.lu on 05 Sep 2024 10:10 next collapse

Soon, Chinese leader dump contemplation. -1000 social credit if not liked

YeetPics@mander.xyz on 05 Sep 2024 10:14 next collapse

Lmao, what a weird way to worm your way into kids heads. Fuckin psycho Xinny

I’m sure he already forces everyone to like his shitposts and reply to him in the group chat, too.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 13:40 collapse

Yea, I had to read thoughts of some guy called Jeesus. At last if didn’t look like Winnie the Pooh.

Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 10:16 next collapse

Imagine it’s not about politics or economics; it’s just random shit he thinks each day:

“Damn, I really want to scratch myself with his Fork”

“Hehe that man looks like a Frog”

“I really really need to fart right now.”

“I know this gives me mad gas, but I really want that pork chop”

“I bet I could throw that Kid like a Football”

runeko@programming.dev on 05 Sep 2024 13:54 next collapse

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WanderingVentra@lemm.ee on 05 Sep 2024 14:29 collapse

It sounds like the random shit streamers have to say to provide content for hours lol.

“Hey chat, it’s your boy, Xi.”

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 10:36 next collapse

Sounds familiar. Does he have a little red book he gives them all to read?

hakunawazo@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 18:54 collapse
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 11:57 next collapse

Oh, bother.

Zip2@feddit.uk on 05 Sep 2024 14:38 next collapse

So they’re teaching kids how to get slave labour by “reeducating” an ethnic minority?

TheBat@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 17:16 next collapse

All these cunts think alike.

Modi had Monkey Bath, sorry, Mann Ki Baat.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Ki_Baat

poo@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 2024 18:19 next collapse

Xi Jinping should be beheaded 💆‍♂️

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works on 07 Sep 2024 04:25 collapse

Too clean, impale him via anus.

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works on 06 Sep 2024 16:55 next collapse

We do the same thing here in kindergarten. Teacher reads. Whinnie the Pooh.

veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 19:08 next collapse

I mean at this point anything goes. You know that if you have a layover in Hong Kong, they changed the law to be able to arrest you at the airport if you expressed dissident thought anytime in the past?

They all but destroyed free expression if it criticizes government. Just another t1 mainland city now. And with it, the outflux of FDI, because there is no confidence in cult of personality leaders who are also conniving.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 07 Sep 2024 02:07 next collapse

Geez, who ever saw this coming since two decades ago?

stellargmite@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 04:46 collapse

Assuming this is sarcasm, I’m fine with being reminded of the CCP’s continuing disregard for international law, basic law of HK, and their pissing all over the joint declaration. Whether or not we saw it coming, its bad for the people of HK, China and the world. And it hasn’t been two decades since the regression got underway with this current clique of psychopaths anyway. Things were somewhat optimistic 10 years ago on both sides of the border. There were concerns, but the agreed arrangement which they’ve now torn up in order to turn HK into a dystopia, was working. Unfortunately positive human development is incompatible with insecure authoritarians. All of these developments are sad.

SassyRamen@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 07:15 collapse

I see in this thumbnail that Xi is also talking about Trumps crowd size.