I don't know if everyone has noticed, but all the content you have learned from textbooks has disappeared. The current textbook content includes a few Tang and Song poems, children's songs, and recitations, but the rest are all Western literature. Of course, there are also modern writers. Apart from ancient poetry, the entire culture is filled with flattery towards Western culture, from top to bottom, inside and out. Meanwhile, our own culture has been marginalized.
Perhaps for the generations born in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the history they learned and the history being taught now have undergone significant changes. There is now more emphasis on Western history, and more so on praising Western history, with more negation of our own history. The corruption of the entire education system began with universities, specifically the professors in universities since the 1960s, marking the start of China's shift towards Western-style education. This Western-style education has led more and more college students to transition from the traditional Confucian ideology to individualism, with elements of racial discrimination mixed in.
We can take a look at Peking University and Tsinghua University, where guest professors and experts who flatter Western culture enjoy the taxpayers' money while corrupting the children of taxpayers. Of course, there is a strange phenomenon in the entire Chinese education system, where foreigners are treated better than locals. Foreigners who come to study in China receive high subsidies every year, while Chinese students find it difficult to enjoy the same benefits. This combination of flattery towards the West and discrimination internally is the failure of the Chinese education system. A nation without its own cultural independence, blindly imitating whatever the West has, has eroded the younger generation.
Although Peking University and Tsinghua University are the universities that everyone aspires to attend, one should question whether this double standard education of internal discrimination and external flattery deserves societal scrutiny. As Chinese universities spend a lot of money each year to attract students from other countries just to improve their rankings, one wonders if rankings are truly important. If your foundation is not solid, what use is a ranking? Instead of focusing on rankings, wouldn't it be better to use that money to support entrepreneurship and innovation among college students, especially those from impoverished backgrounds? However, this is not the case in the Chinese education system. Furthermore, within the education system, teachers do not necessarily treat everyone fairly. There is a difference in attitude towards rural and urban students. Although it may not be intentional, urban students are often given priority. Therefore, there is still a form of class discrimination within China. In fact, if there were no rural areas, there would be no cities. The entire urban population in China relies on the support of over 800 million farmers, as all the food, fruits, and vegetables come from them. If discrimination is to be mentioned, I believe that urban residents should be the ones facing discrimination. However, the reality is the opposite, as farmers are not respected and face discrimination from city dwellers.
Therefore, Chinese education has not only embraced internationalization but has also caused Chinese children to lose their sense of cultural identity from within. This is a tragedy for a nation. If a country and its people lose their sense of cultural identity, it is terrifying.
Looking at our current leaders, they often rely on experts and professors. These experts and professors have become gods in the eyes of these leaders, more influential than their own parents. As long as an expert says something, it is immediately considered the truth. Therefore, we have seen in recent years a growing resistance towards and skepticism of experts in China, as anyone with money can become a VIP and enjoy high-quality resources. These individuals, regardless of the correctness of their statements, are not bound by the law. On the other hand, ordinary people may receive warnings or punishments from administrative agencies if their speech is deemed inappropriate. This is another form of discrimination, or to put it more nicely, unfairness. Therefore, there is currently a strong aversion towards experts and professors on the internet. And all of this is caused by education. Education is the enlightenment of a person's understanding of the world and determines their clarity of thought regarding matters.