it's fucking A! It's A! IT IS THE ANSWER LETTERED A! I LOVE COLLEGE! I LOVE COLLEGE SO MUCH! I'M LEARNING SO MUCH! :matt-jokerfied:
It's hard to ever forget that one st*dy where it showed the average American had a 5th grade reading level. It was to say that many Americans could read , but not take information away from a source.
Also if Google is to be trusted then China has a higher literacy rate than the US.
Also "made transitions to democracy" is a really euphemistic way to talk about all the war, bloodshed, and atrocities that happened (e.g. the atom bombs in Japan).
That's how they indoctrinate people into believing the US can do war crimes, you see :very-intelligent:
I will remind you that 'party elites' in charge of cities that did not respond to COVID properly are currently facing jail time, which has also been criticized as 'too authoritarian'.
Of course it is. Western politicians know their asses would be rotting in prison for the rest of their lives if that were to happen to them.
Democracy is not an ornament to be used for decoration; it is to be used to solve the problems that the people want to solve. Whether a country is a democracy or not depends on whether its people are really the masters of the country. If the people are awakened only for voting but enter a dormant period soon after, if they are given a song and dance during campaigning but have no say after the election, or if they are favored during canvassing but are left out in the cold after the election, such a democracy is not a true democracy
:xi-lib-tears:
Wait is this a Xi quote? Uncritical support - based and chinapilled :some-controversy:
China, famously lacking in significant reforms.
China, famously lacking in poverty alleviation and education efforts.
China, famously lacking in bogus foreign accusations leveraged against it.
China, famously lacking in mass mobilization.
While many states on the American continents have made the transition to democracy, the United States, so far, has resisted the transition. Which factor promoting democracy does the United States seem to be missing?
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a. Economic equality: the United States' growth has concentrated wealth and power in the parties' elite, who have a strong incentive to stay in power and resist reform.
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b. Income and resources: the United States' population remains largely poor and uneducated.
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c. International pressures: no major international actor has ever criticized the United States on its human rights record.
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d. Civil society: the United States lacks any significant mobilization by its masses.
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e. All of the above
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China, so far, has resisted this transition
In light of recent world events, this is a sentence spoken by a priest of Nurgle
how do you not just spend the whole class yelling at the professor?
pain tolerance and knowing that most of the students are suburbanite libs so going off in class would be less effective than usual
Eurocentrism 101, the Chinese don't have a liberal democracy ™, which means they have to be behind us enlightened westerners in some way, be it in development, civil society or political elites. So it is our job as the rules based order ® to put international pressure on China and bring them up to speed on liberal democracy.
MBAs aren't real college degrees. It's an indoctrination program where they strip you of any empathy you might still be harboring for the working class and teach you that the US economic system is divinely mandated and infallible.
Unironically, every other department should unite to burn down business schools and steal the ridiculous amount of funding they get. I was so pissed off that I was studying in shabby buildings from the 70s while the Business school cranking out brain dead functionally uneducated MBAs had swank brand new buildings with marble floors and stainless steel detailing and fucking cafes and all the latest technologies. Meanwhile the grad students were organizing to demand some kind of survivable wage.
There has never been an interaction that happened inside a business school that added value to the world
This is like 20 Zizeks deep into the ideological trash can, every sentence just oozes bourgeoise brain worms.
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every sentence in this is something that would be uttered 5 minutes before someone would go full calipers on you :kermit-pain:
I wonder if you can be the annoying kid in the class and ask the professor "Sir I'm just curious because my search is turning up empty, but could you give an example of a rich Chinese government official? Like what is their equivalent to the Clintons or Bush? For reference of course, I'm curious about learning more about this seeseepee elite you mentioned on the previous test..." :very-smart:
Or maybe ask them about c), are they living under a rock or something?
God I was so obnoxious asking questions like this. Professors hated me.
There's an answer to that and it's not good 😬
CPC officials aren't allowed to be publically rich, it used to be a fairly open secret a lot of them were fucking loaded, after Xi's anti-corruption push it's probably? gotten a lot better but no real public information's ever been available. Regardless nonparty members still hold a lot of power in elected bodies and in particular the National People's Congress, China's highest legislative body has enough billionaires and otherwise obscenely rich people on it to push the net worth of the average member over 100 million USD, and that number has only been rising over the course of their term.
The claim wasn't that there are rich people in the party, but a particularly rich elite that supposedly rules the party from the shadows. When you compare the corporate influence in US politics it is supposed to contrast to something like the DNC being a completely democratic institution and not ruled by like half a dozen families and their billionaire friends.
At this stage of SCC it is impossible to completely remove influence of the capitalists in the party, but it is also impossible to frame that as some sort of highly corrupt party elite supposedly ruling democratically. It is not hard for someone to find points to criticize the CPC, it just requires them to not be mad drunk on ideology.
I don't see how that could be answered in anything other than a short essay. Fuck, let your students write 5 sentences, at least.
I mean what course even is this? If it's some PoliSci thing, and this is a test related to modern Asian politics, or even just polisci 101, have your students write a couple of sentences on what they think democracy is, and what "requirements" exist for its development. Then they can reasonably argue why China is not a liberal democracy, based on their own understanding.
That seems like a way better academic exercise than choosing between "Reductive statement on career politicians (A), Incorrect statement on the developmental level of Chinese society - I hope you randomly know it's incorrect (B), Whatever lib copium this is (C), :mao-wtf: (D)
Intro to Comparative Politics, taking it for the prereq and credit :pain:
Hold up tho, democracy aside, hasn’t there been a big anti-corruption push to get some of the concentrated wealth out of positions of power?
