Posted on 01/19/2023 7:32:15 AM PST by algore
An American fashion designer who spent 16 years in Shanghai has published an essay in the New York Times highlighting the virtues of raising her children under the watchful and authoritarian eye of the Chinese government.
Heather Kaye, 49, arrived in Shanghai in 2006 with her husband George and planned to be there for a year. But the couple stayed and ended up raising their two daughters there. However, in 2022 the family was driven to return to the US after living for two years under the country's draconian COVID-19 policies.
She has now described her return to Washington DC as a 'culture shock' that makes her miss the way her children were 'co-parented by the Chinese government'.
Kaye acknowledged the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party would insert itself into family life, be it by controlling what her kids ate or by dictating the number of hours they should sleep at night.
'In China, government co-parenting begins in the womb,' she wrote, referring to the limits on how many children parents were allowed, which have since been relaxed.
She added that not long after enrolling her kids in state-run schools it started controlling how they should live
'Chinese kindergarten lectured us on everything, including how many hours our daughters should sleep, what they should eat and their optimal weight,' she said.
She recounted: 'Each morning all of the students performed calisthenics in straight rows and raised China's red flag while singing the national anthem.'
And she commended the Chinese system for independently 'instilling a solid work ethic and a total drive for academic excellence,' teaching them that hard work leads to results.
Kaye claimed she was also grateful for the way surrendering parts of their children's lives to the state reduced burdens on her and her husband
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And brainwashed. Incapable of thinking things through...
Leftists love to be ruled. She should return to Red China or North Korea.
Well-stated, algore!
“Stupid (**t”
I have the perfect solution......A ONE-WAY TICKET BACK TO CHINA AND I MEAN FOREVER.
Apparently Free Will is real problem for some people.
And, also apparently, being owned by the State and following orders like a slave is not a problem for those people.
Not an uncommon reaction after living under an authoritarian regime - even a cult - so not surprised.
Too bad we have lost that here in our school systems.
Reminds me of northerners that move to the South and then constantly whine about “how much better things are :up north”.
In both cases may I suggest pack your shit and move back.
chick not chicken, but whatever. She’s crazy either way.
No! and GFY!
In a way, she's correct. Foreign kids in Chinese cities will not encounter drugs, or muggings, or random shootings. Even for petty crime, they may encounter pick-pockets, but otherwise, even criminals don't want to mess with "foreign ghosts."
She's also correct - public schools are certainly more rigid and disciplined than US public schools. Education is considered the only (non-corrupt) path to success. Its heavy on STEM, NO gender-theory, homosexuality, or CRT tought there. Yes, fat kids may be shamed, because they not healthy.
In many ways, China copies public education of the USA before 1950. The major difference is the State and CCP propaganda replace individual Christian morality.
So in sum, yes, a post-modern, atheistic, narcissistic Karen would love the Chinese State raising their children.
Well she is free to go back
The real problem lies with the fact that these drones think everybody else should be like them as well.
She’s got Battered Citizen Syndrome.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/10/15/the_ponytail_guy_18_years_later/
“And, also apparently, being owned by the State and following orders like a slave is not a problem for those people.”
It’s no different than BDSM fantasies some people have. They feel like giving up absolute control to someone else is “freeing” because then they have no responsibilities or tough choices to make.
This is really simple. If you don’t like it here, and you do like it there, then move there and leave us alone
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