How to play with words

Was die USA mit China gemeinsam haben.

Ein Leser macht mich auf das aufmerksam: How Chinese Students Experience America

Beachtlich, dass Kommunismus-/Sozialismus-geschulte wie Chinesen meinen, dass ihnen die USA wie China vorkommen:

I knew of only a few former students who, like Vincent, had already decided to make a permanent home outside China. It was viewed as an extreme step, and most of them preferred to keep their options open. But virtually all my former students in the U.S. planned to apply to graduate school here.

They were concerned about the economic and political situation in China, but they also often felt out of place in Pittsburgh. American racial attitudes sometimes mystified them. One engineer had taken a Pitt psychology class that frequently touched on race, and he said that it reminded him of the political-indoctrination classes at Sichuan University. In both situations, he felt that students weren’t supposed to ask questions. “They’re just telling you how to play with words,” he said. “Like in China when they say socialism is good. In America you will say, ‘Black lives matter.’ They are actually the same thing. When you are saying socialism is good, you are saying that capitalism is bad. You are hiding something behind your words. When you say, ‘Black lives matter,’ what are you saying? You are basically saying that Asian lives don’t matter, white lives don’t matter.”

Die USA sind längst so sozialistisch geworden, dass selbst Chinesen darin China wiedererkennen.

Was dann auch recht deutlich erklärt, woher der ganze Woke-Mist eigentlich kommt: Aus den Tiefen der kommunistischen Ideologie.