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RED SCARF GIRL Buy The Book
Ji-li excels at almost everything.
Will the “New China” end her progress and dreams?
"We were all brainwashed. To us
Chairman Mao was God. He controlled everything we read, everything
we heard, and everything we learned in school. We believed
everything he said...Anything bad had to be the fault of others.
Mao was blameless." ~Ji-Li
An autobiographical account of a
gradual acceptance into a new order of coercion, and fear.
Oh, the power of propaganda (if we
could only use these techniques to inspire our kids to clean their
messes).
It is hard to believe a whole
country's people can be sucked into this level of submission and
patronage. I guess it happens all over the world and it is
interesting to explore these lies from a child’s perspective in
Red Scarf Girl.
All I have to say is --
thank goodness for democracy!
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