Posted on 05/15/2020 7:25:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
So they can learn that the above is true about China, but Shakespeare didn't write it. :)
I see absolutely nothing wrong with having a western civilization superiority complex. Go own the list of nations that have legitimate democratic values, religious freedom, freedom of speech and expression...and while it isn't perfect, "western civilization" wins hands down. It's not even close.
The two best non-western counter examples are Japan and South Korea, both of which had a heavy U.S. influence in the second half of the 20th century.
AMERICAN students need to study Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers too. My guess is that diminishingly few recent college graduates here could write a one paragraph summary of either Macbeth or what the Federalist Papers are.
ML/NJ
Aras, poor Yorick, I knew him werr.
No, Chinese students studying in America need to LEAVE.
ALL OF THEM.
Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra... Ra Ra Ra Ra.
Chinese students in America need to be thrown out on their ear. The only here to steal every bit of technology and intellectual property they can.
Few college graduates can even write a sentence period. I work with some of these kids. Good God I’ve had dogs and cats that were smarter. None of these kids can function for five minutes without staring into a Smart phone.
To your average millennial a Smart phone is what a pacifier is to a baby.
First, kick out all the Chinese. Then teach American history and the US Constitution to Americans students.
First they need indoctrination into REAL Chinese history. Show them what Mao did, the Tettiaman Square and what Winnie the Xu is doing. Then give them the cultural test on what they learned. If they fail, immediate deportation.
In the early days of FR the Shakespeare insult generator was great fun.
Thou villainous folly-fallen bag of guts!
Thou spongy dizzy-eyed miscreant!
Thou villainous swag-bellied scurvy-knave!
Thou creeping idle-headed minnow!
http://www.literarygenius.info/a2-shakespeare-insult-generator.htm
"If she says your behavior is heinous,
kick her right in the Coriolanus."
LOL!
Chinese students studying in America eeed to be sent home!
In the early days of FR the Shakespeare insult generator was great fun.
Thou villainous folly-fallen bag of guts!
Thou spongy dizzy-eyed miscreant!
Thou villainous swag-bellied scurvy-knave!
Thou creeping idle-headed minnow!
http://www.literarygenius.info/a2-shakespeare-insult-generator.htm
12 posted on 5/15/2020, 1:49:57 PM by Rebelbase (Democrat politicians prefer death)
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That’s hysterical! thanks for that link!
There’s another, compelling reason for Chinese, and, indeed, all non-Angolphone foreign students to read and learn Shakespeare: coming to understand his linguistically difficult passages will enable all of them to understand and speak English better than anything else. I discovered this when I saw his first play while in grade school and, even more, in high school. In each case it was essential to decode his sixteenth century iambic pentameter to understand the play. After doing that every student who’s English challenged (all of us were native Anglophones), understands proper English far better. Aside from Shakespeare, the only better teacher of proper, formal English is the King James Bible.
They need to GTFO.
All of them.
L
I prefer, “You have the evil mind of a Spotted Adder.” Hat tip to my late maternal grandmother, when she said the same thing to my late mother after mom made an off color remark.
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