Personally, I LOVE how the reporters offered so little commentary and just focused on the topic at hand. Good job! The bias in this certainly isn't from Vice news, so amazing job Vice news!
Some mistranslations there... He did not claim that Maoist thought is God, as Christians, Jews, or Muslims would define a singular God. The word he used is 'shen,' which is the generic Mandarin term for 'a god.' So what he said is Maoist thought is godly, or divine. He also did not say 'Praise the Buddha.' He invoked the a-mi-to bodhisatva, more commonly known in the West as the Amida Buddha, which is a completely distinct entity from Siddartha, who is 'The' Buddha. This invocation is similar to 'amen' in Christianity, being used to close off a prayer.
@@LeftLaneDreams Not like a god. Like an ancestor. Oh, it's ironic indeed that he would offer prayers to Mao in death, when Mao in life did his best to illegalize such prayers. Also I doubt Mao's his ancestor anyway so he can't even invoke him properly. ; But such ignorance is common fruit of the Cultural Revolution. He's about the right age to have come up during it.
Just a little respect, because many of parts of the world including China and the United States are already secular nations-meaning we have been treating each other regardless of religions and ethnic groups. No wonder we see that China is much more friendly to many of us than is the United States.
China is huge, but it not even being the 2d largest country is truly aweinspiring. especially for someone like me who is Dutch. (From the Netherlands, or "Holland" although that's an incorrect name.)
Even as a Chinese, I think he kinda goes too far. But I do admire that he has his belief and has the guts to do something about it. What he said at the end of the video is what I've been thinking.
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms I mean, Mao's China is still modern China. The Communist Party might not be as hardline as it was, but they are still in charge.
whoa. This is really something special. You almost never see this sort of stuff in the cities. This is like a relic from the past. To those who have never lived in China this may seem disgusting, or improper, and there's arguments to be made for and against that but to me, this is really cute. This is people in the countryside hanging on to values when the bustling cities have long since moved past it into a state of controlled capitalism. These people by the way, are alot more honest, simple (in a good way) and humble then the new generations raised in the large cities, thinking they're the center of the world due to their only child upbringing.
I don't feel disgusted by anyone in this documentary. They stay humans even in a distant area. There are enough places on this Earth, where despite all material virtues people act like animals. There're kids in this world that bring guns to school, some kids create cliques based on a brands of their clothes, bags, phones, evaluate each other based on material virtues. Some kids (teenagers rather) enter gangs. Wolves rise wolves. I'm only worried that kids and teachers in this documentary are too pure for this world, hence not really protected from its challenges.
Not as oppressive as the USA where the police officers can brutally and abusively beat up unarmed citizens, shoot dead black suspects, TSA officers sadistically harass passengers, social workers have the right to abduct kids from parents, minors being are tried as adults and sent to adult prisons, the government could demolish the WTC murdering its civilians to use it as an excuse to invade Iraq, the US government supported by its citizens to invade Syria, Libya and Ukraine to create havoc and wars and turn people's life into hell. God is fair that He has permitted the Islamic militants to terrorise you double standard hypocrites. Make sure your turban won't get you harassed when you fly.
+Happy 888 In China the police officers have been known to be more brutal and abusive. Also you claim that the US is more oppressive, but in China the government could literally tear down people's homes without their consent.
i think that most people knew this. the thing that completely confirmed to me that china was a capitalist country was when i saw a bunch of christmas decorations around christmas time at one of the local city malls in china.
I find it weird that he describes Maoism as "traditional values". Makes me think that he is just reliving his childhood. I feel bad for this guy, he seems sad.
I am Chinese and I am sure that no one in recent Chinese history was greater than him. Although he made all the bad decisions that resulted in deaths. We still think he did the greater good. Don't judge him when you know very little about him and most western media is pretty negative on him so that is extremely negative when you compare all the great things he did
why western media always focus on the odd stuff in china while ignoring that the majority of schools no longer teach that way. Making people from other countries feel like china is nationalism and dictated but it certainly not the truth.
"You loved the right wing, here's a right wing newspaper" Surely that's a mistranslation? Mao loved the right wing? Well, maybe. I mean he did shake hands with Nixon which kind of killed his credibility in revolutionary terms.
Hes referring to Deng Xiaoping, who succeeded Mao. You can hear and see him putting up a picture of Deng right before he says the right wing newspaper bit.
@@lucadhagat9364 Ahhh interesting insight. And if he's referring to Deng then that would make a little bit more sense. I would hardly call him 'right wing' though lmao.
@@whatamalike oh no he'd definitely be considered right wing, atleast economically. At the very least he was regarded as the leader of the right wing of the party
oh man, I came from that province in China, and never have I ever known about that village. I thought those kinds of extreme schooling system where they strongly promote communism died off after my parents' generation graduated, but apparently not. This is a good information to know.
People who support communism typically support "libertarian" communism - where the government is benevolent and democratic and the people all willingly participate in the system. It's a lovely idea. Unfortunately, for large populations, communism requires a very authoritarian government that can enforce communism's strict laws. That's why most modern communist countries have a totalitarian oligarchy/dictatorship, police state, cult of personality around a supreme leader, etc. Libertarian communism is an oxymoron in the real world - and people who support it have to resort to "No True Scotsman" arguments to defend their ideology.
"That's why most modern communist countries have a totalitarian oligarchy/dictatorship, police state, cult of personality around a supreme leader, etc." So when you say "most", I assume you also believe that a minority of modern communist countries are *not* totalitarian/etc? So then it follows that libertarian communism, by your own statement, has actually existed in modernity? Thus you have invalidated your own assertion that "Libertarian communism is an oxymoron in the real world"? Your logic does not follow.
ceounicom You are so brilliant! I pointed out a hole in his argument, sans malicious intent, and you turn this into a pissing match. I did not insert anything; I only pointed out the contradiction between his use of "most" and his assertion that "people who support it have to resort to "No True Scotsman" arguments to defend their ideology". If you're too dense to understand that this is a valid argument, then perhaps it is you yourself who should refrain from posting intellectually-vacuous replies. And don't be a dickhead by trying mimic a stereotypical Asian accent. It contributes nothing towards your credibility.
And *****, would you kindly reply directly to me and explain why I am wrong or clarify your position, instead of outsourcing your defense to intellectual lightweights? I am sure that if you better explained yourself, I would agree with you. I am not a communist and feel no urge to toe the party line.
***** Ahh, marxist interrectual is sad no one wants to play with his ball of word-sniping yarn. Why does word-sniper have no other friend to pray with? Maybe no one think lame cross-examination dialectic is actually fruitful, and full of reflexive reasoning and nonsense? Maybe numbnuts got degree from Bard, now no one want talk marxist with them now? Still owe $200,000 to some bank? So sad, this capitalisms....
Communism should be put in quotes. Like: China is the biggest "communist" country in the world (as in not really communist but still pretending to be communist just so they can save face)
Chinese rulers were fed up with being poor (relative to other rulers) and wanted to be competitive on the grand chess board. They used communist ideology to get their foot in the door, but once they were in they realized that they had higher aspirations than dominating a barely subsisting population on a giant hippy farm.
ik this is 9 years ago but by your definition Vladimir Lenin was also a pretend communist Deng Xiaoping got the idea of liberalisation from Lenin and Bukharin not western capitalists
I grow up in china. I went to school in china. I never saw or heard of a school like this. There are millions of schools in china, maybe only one or two schools are like this one.
For people who are quick at making judgements... this teacher clearly treats Maoism almost religiously. To him, Mao is not simply a historical figure, but God. It doesn't matter what historical Mao did... this guy is simply exercising his religious freedom. So essentially his school is a "Church of Mao". That said, I do suspect he had some serious mental trauma from the Cultural Revolution and he hadn't recovered from that yet.
"......truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up......" Max Planck.
At least honour him for setting up school in such a remote place. Make him party member. Or some party secretary on district level or something. His honesty is astounding.
Becoming member of the PCC is really hard. Xi Xinping tried 10 times before succeding (And he was the son of an important member of the party, just to show you how hard it is)
Actually, here on display are some very interesting cultural differences in how we view education here in the West vs. how the concept of education is viewed in the east. The general thinking in the east is that the primary role of childhood education is not to provide information that will one day be used in your future vocation. The primary purpose of education for young people is seen to be the moral/philosophical upbringing of that child - school exists primarily to make sure that your child turns out to be a good person. It is generally expected that vocational skills will be learned in the first year or two on the job as an adult. This learning happens once schooling has been completed. Generally, a mentor of some sort would be assigned on the job to oversee the worker's progress in learning work skills onsite. I didn't find this teacher to be some sort of brainwashing nutjob at all - on the contrary, this man seems to be a gentle and honest educator whose primary goal in life really is the education and upliftment of these young people. He also praised the Buddha briefly in the video, and it has to be assumed that he also was probably educating the children about some Buddhist moral principles as well. That part of what was going on just wasn't deemed sensational enough by the documentarians to warrant translation. This well-meaning scholarly fellow who by his own admission lacked very much formal education of his own was also clearly teaching these young children how to read and write, and basic arithmetic. So what exactly is so wrong with this school existing within the societal and historical framework that it arose from? I said the pledge of allegiance every morning in my public school, growing up. My whole public elementary school here in the United States sang the song "I'm Proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm Free," in UNISON. Hundreds upon hundreds of elementary school aged children were forced to memorize and then perform this song for the parents at a patriotism assembly, and nobody cried out "Brainwashing!" "Creepy!" "What substandard education these kids are receiving!" Nobody batted a single freaking eyelash about the event. Time for us as a country to get off our high horses about how we're so much better than China. Because we're actually not. There are more substandard schools than that all over the nation, quietly tucked away in inner cities.
This is why I believe China will achieve socialism. When you got people in your country who think like this and are raising the next generation to think like this, the liberals, rightists and capitalists will always have to watch their backs 😌
@@AmericanBadger87 China used to have famines every few years. Their last famine was at the beginning of Mao Zedong's term. They haven't had a famine since.
@@TIENxSHINHAN not entirely true and the massive imports recently would still highlight that China isn’t food secure. The problem is that the famine you are referring to was entirely cpc generated.
Too many people saying that China is Communist. Have you never listened when we tell you that there's no hierarchy or currency in Communism? China is State Capitalist, as is North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and the late USSR as well.
☭Jakob Die Leninistischer☭ China isn't just state capitalist it's a weird and ugly mix of capitalism totaltarian dictatorship and corruption North Korea is a totalitarian absolute monarchy.
Wy Zhang Still colapse? It hasn't colapsed but pollution corruption economic crisis and hatred of the government will most likely lead to a collapse of the ccp's rule.
Switched Accounts No, Cuba and North-Korea are socialist. The USSR was state capitalist after Stalin, indeed. China, Vietnam and Laos are fully capitalist right now, they just have authoritarian governments.
SpaceFox indeed the country is pretty divided economically and culturally. There are cities like Shanghai that are equal or better than NY, and there are these places.
I'm impressed. You find a single tiny rural school which meets the stereotypical view of what life in China is like and you build your whole story around that. Resurgent Maoism in the country side is an interesting topic, but it needs to be counterbalanced with the rest of China's breakneck modernisation. I teach Chinese students in shanghai and the contrast couldn't be starker.
no you can see that he is very happy, and when he talks about is mother he started crying, he is a sensible man, for the mao propaganda, this is the chinese cultur, just like our commercial in television, that brainwash people to buy a lot of useless things
My parents said when they were young, this happened in all the schools. But in these days, I have never seen someone teach children like this. This only occurs in rarely small village, it can't represent the whole Chinese education anyway. By the way communist musics are awesome.
Putting aside the political discussions, are the people in the school speaking a particular dialect of Chinese unique to that region? It has a very peculiar sound.
What you see here reflects a small minority in China. Mao's practices are but altogether, dying. There's a new book that people in China are reading now. It is called: "The Governance of China" by Xi Jin Ping. It features 80 speeches delivered by Mr. Xi. Inside that book, if you take the effort to read it, reflects the psyche of the top leader in China right now. And the main getaway from the book is that the China of the future is all about pragmatism and realism. What you see here is the China of the past, romanticize by one small individual. It is the China of the now and future that will shape the world. And while the west continues to point out the weakness of a past China, China forges on. Eyes always on the prize. Relentless. Progressive. I am picking up Mandarin. And may I be so bold to suggest you should too.
i figured that maoism was almost dead but still had a few isolated enclaves where the people were very poor still supporting it. that's how large countries are like. there are always going to be regions where the people living there are a bit slower and less educated the the rest of the general population.
> What you see here is the China of the past, romanticize by one small individual. Yeah, that is the implicit message I got from the video. Unfortunately the subtlety will be lost on lots of people.
xi is a revisionist and an imperialist. to what end should china become the dominant world power if its just going to behave like all of the previous hegemons? the revolution died with Mao
As a mainland chinese grew up in China, I have to say the guy portrayed in this video consists of less than 0.001% of Chinese. The cult kind of education shown in this video is a far too extreme minority. Actually I am also stunned to such kind of hardcore communism school still exists.
I feel sad for the students there, and I feel fear, fear that there's parents actually send their kids there. And sorrow, for such place still exists in China.
Almost all the documentaries and videos that I saw about China emphasize the dark side and simply ignore the great side. Chinese people are more free than what many people think. People imagine China as a terribly censored communist country. However, many don't realize how open it is today compare to the past. My grandmother, almost 80 years old, lives in China for her entire life, discussed the election of Trump with me a few months ago. Some old people that live in small villages in China talk about the presidential election in USA. Chinese people don't bring money or credit card when they go shopping, a phone can solve everything, people can pay anywhere for anything with their phone. I know that my country is not perfect, but it is improving.
I was born, raised and educated in China. I was shocked to learn this type of education is still existing in China. Obviously this is an extreme case. Please don't think all the schools are like that in China. PS: I know where you are from, VICE. People love consuming extreme information and that's why you keep making videos like this. This video has already caused a lot of misunderstanding and hatred from what I can tell.
The comments below shows that 90% people failed to understand what this video was about. They were so extremely uninformed and confused about the most basic concepts. Stay in school, read more, learn a foreign language, travel abroad, then come back to watch this video again, you will be glad you did.
@@Nathan-jh1ho The communist world is indeed utopian, but he is committed to eradicating order and inequality, and communism is great in this respect. China is not as uncomfortable as the video. After all, the media is in line with the political correctness of the Western world in order to smash the head, and the material is spliced. Just like the montage of the Soviet Union, it gives him a special meaning.
Mao is a great theorist and one of the main founders of the PRC. However the cultural revolution is his worst legacy. Luckily nowadays people are more even-handed when judging Mao's success and failure. This guy is still living in the 70s... I think China's shift from extreme communism to scientific socialism is a very wise move.
I work in another Far East country, and I can say that the students learn only by repetition and copying what the teacher writes on the board-no independent thinking or creativity. Some students are bound to spend their lives working in the fields and small factories due to backward education.
+Adam Romanenko Shithole is between your legs. Russia is net creditor nation, with one of lowest debts in G-20, one of highest gold reserves and now still buying in despite this poor, laughable sanctions.
+Rex Lat sure debt is low, why should companies invest in russia instead of europe, united states etc ...russia is corrupt as f..ck, the standart of living is a joke, just check the gdp per capita, corruption index, better life index etc...nothing innovativ, world-changing is coming out of russia sry ...no wonder that so many russians move to western europe or already live there...life is superior here, greetz from germany.
Master2Khof Debt means that one does not own specific thing, isnt that obvious!? Russia does not need nay investments, as Russia is almost autarky. It can provide anything without any foreign trades. Yes, Russia is corrupt, but you can't even compare corrupt enviroment and politics in U.S and E.U. I have friends and countless contacts who work in Brussels and one of largest European news agencies. You simply have no idea about censorship, corruption in Western world. In fact, it is well known about U.S corruption now. Just ask Snoweden, lol! [standart of living is a joke] - It is not about GDP or some idiotic index which is made by poll results, that makes no any connection to average living standards anyway. It is all about AVERAGE purchasing power, which in Russia is higher, despite country 15 years ago still was destroyed completely. [russians move to...] - Nope, idiot. They are buying real estate, just like here in Latvia, with very cheap prices of homes, make dachas and then move further. You seriously have no idea about it, do you? Go to Jūrmala here in Latvia (one of richest cities and international tour sites), every house, which was once owned by richest Latvians are now owned by richest Russians, Belorussians and Scandinavians. Heck, even almost half London is owned by Russian privates.
+Rex Lat purchasing power is higher ok...u don't know what the fuck your talking about....the country was destroyed? u destroyed your own country and whole eastern europe with your great idea of communism...buying real estate... 0,5 percent of your people maybe... most russians live here so that they can afford something in life...your infrastructure is very bad, healthcare is shit, wages are 1/5 of ours, jurisdiction is a joke, your ,,middle-class is lacking 50 years behind...i've been to russia several times lipetsk , kazan, moscow...but ok you are right russian standart of living is equal to denmark, germany, sweden, austria, netherlands etc facepalm...we have our problems here but it is getting ridicules how underdeveloped countries like russia now think they are as good as the west...dream on kid, or just take a ride through western europe and learn... i'm out!
Ravensteinzh Where did you get your numbers from? Canada total: 9,976,140 sq km land: 9,220,970 sq km water: 755,170 sq km China total: 9,596,960 sq km land: 9,326,410 sq km water: 270,550 sq km CIA world fact book China is still bigger in land mass if you didn't want to include lakes. I am just not sure why you wouldn't want to include lakes.
Ravensteinzh Also that doesn't change the fact that Russia is bigger... Much Much bigger. Oh and I've heard the US uses fuzzy numbers to put itself as 3rd above China so I didn't include that.
***** Large refers to size, and more specifically refers to width. Only a stupid person, or a stupid editor, would be able to watch this intro and not cringe.
he said that only maoist thought can save the traitors and the corrupted....but refuse to accept kids older than 13 into his school because they can't be saved any longer lol the irony
Damn. I wish I had a childhood to spend in a school like that. Looks awesome compared to the boring ass Sunday schools teaching American Jesus in the US-occupied Philippines
As a Chinese I got say, this man is crazy, and it's hard to believe there is a primary school like this in china. Then i searched for more info,here is something more about it, news.163.com/photoview/00AN0001/41094.html#p=9G9QD3KT00AN0001. Basically , this man established this school himself, since "there is no one understand him, and public school do not hire him at all." He is an extremist , a maoist, also a kind of anti-intellectualism. And he anti genetic engineering,too. There are less students now, and he blamed to US imperialism ,lol. By the way, it's not just u gays shocked by this, many Chinese are shocked,too.
Vice, is there anyway I could get in contact with this man? I come from a very wealthy background however my family is extremely conservative. My father is dying of cancer and he has 3 months left to live, when he dies I will inherit all his wealth and take over the family business. My reason for wanting to get in touch with this man is so I can fund millions of dollars into his program.
***** no I did not say that. China today is different from China 60 years ago. They are teaching the children about Mao's teaching and thought. If you actually watched the video, people SEND their children there. It is a choice. I would probably learn a lot more there then I would in a horrible American school filled with a bunch of clueless Americans with no values in life whatsoever.
Thanks for the video, it’s well made. However as a Chinese myself, I can’t bring myself to believe half of what this guy is mumbling. He has issues. And it’ll be foolish to assume that the majority of Chinese population is like him.
this is a very one sided documentary, showing one of the poorest most secluded village in china, possibly the most maoist village in china , in major city or towns no one could give one fuck about mao
VintageLJ No, they did not mention that it was a specific case, if I were a westerner I d think all of China would have these schools. Being raised in China, to me this video seems crazy and backwards to me, shame on VICE, again picked a sensational minority story to try and catch views about China.
collin ohlinger if this propaganda is about loving your country, it is true, if it is about Mao worship, it definitely not. All the history book in Chinese school mentioned that Mao made big mistakes when he was old
You said children over 13 has no hope of recovering from the pollution of corruption, but yet, you said corrupt officials and traitors could be saved? Such contradiction. Such logic.
Personally, I LOVE how the reporters offered so little commentary and just focused on the topic at hand. Good job! The bias in this certainly isn't from Vice news, so amazing job Vice news!
Who did the editing for this video?
8:42 Jesus Christ, I nearly jumped up to the ceiling! Don't just cut away to something like that!
Scared the holy crap out off me :D
Lmao
Dangit.....
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I shouldnt have clicked on it loo
Some mistranslations there...
He did not claim that Maoist thought is God, as Christians, Jews, or Muslims would define a singular God. The word he used is 'shen,' which is the generic Mandarin term for 'a god.' So what he said is Maoist thought is godly, or divine.
He also did not say 'Praise the Buddha.' He invoked the a-mi-to bodhisatva, more commonly known in the West as the Amida Buddha, which is a completely distinct entity from Siddartha, who is 'The' Buddha. This invocation is similar to 'amen' in Christianity, being used to close off a prayer.
Which is true,Engels was a Man of Germanic Pagan Faith. He believed that the spirits of the world guided him.
You might be right, but they sure were praying to him like a god...
@@LeftLaneDreams Not like a god. Like an ancestor. Oh, it's ironic indeed that he would offer prayers to Mao in death, when Mao in life did his best to illegalize such prayers. Also I doubt Mao's his ancestor anyway so he can't even invoke him properly.
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But such ignorance is common fruit of the Cultural Revolution. He's about the right age to have come up during it.
Vice is cringe jornalism
Just a little respect, because many of parts of the world including China and the United States are already secular nations-meaning we have been treating each other regardless of religions and ethnic groups. No wonder we see that China is much more friendly to many of us than is the United States.
The guy might seem crazy but it does seem like he genuinely cares about the kids
he believes in the Buddha and cannot be crazy or lier. you hear inattentively
@@ticiusarakan anyone can be crazy and still believe in Buddha
0:05 "China is the world's largest country."
YOU HAD ONE JOB BEN
LOL
By population it is the world's largest country and that's what he referred to.
@@shashanknayak8307 oh makes sense
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China is huge, but it not even being the 2d largest country is truly aweinspiring.
especially for someone like me who is Dutch.
(From the Netherlands, or "Holland" although that's an incorrect name.)
I spent two years in China and I miss it every day of my life. Friendly, wonderful people.
Kudos to the Vice reporters to even find this guy in this day and age
Live Free you must be a Mao enthusiastic too, when I was in China all I did was to find girls
Even as a Chinese, I think he kinda goes too far. But I do admire that he has his belief and has the guts to do something about it. What he said at the end of the video is what I've been thinking.
“Ok comrades, today we are going to learn about social-credit scores”
Actually, I am Orange Man
Lol
Maybe you wouldn't be a fucking gamer then,huh?
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Academia today
All politics aside, they looked really happy watching those fireworks. That made me happy.
I feel mostly sad for this guy.
I agree, to me this seems like the attempts of a guy to relive his childhood, feeling lost and alienated in modern China. Sad.
Communism is a good way but you cant live satisfyingly
I don't. He's a prick.
@@TheMindIlluminated Because Modern China maybe isn't as good........
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms I mean, Mao's China is still modern China. The Communist Party might not be as hardline as it was, but they are still in charge.
This village is in the same area that Chairman Mao grew up. It's only natural that the local schools treat him like a celebrity. A stupid story.
i didn't know that.
yeah, fuck communism
why stupid? Only because it´s in your country? WHY SO SHAME?
Mao was from Hunan Province, this is Henan Province, further north
MS3300 fuck capitalism
he needed a hug when he started talking about his elderly woman who had passed (was it his mom? idk)
whoa. This is really something special. You almost never see this sort of stuff in the cities. This is like a relic from the past. To those who have never lived in China this may seem disgusting, or improper, and there's arguments to be made for and against that but to me, this is really cute. This is people in the countryside hanging on to values when the bustling cities have long since moved past it into a state of controlled capitalism.
These people by the way, are alot more honest, simple (in a good way) and humble then the new generations raised in the large cities, thinking they're the center of the world due to their only child upbringing.
I don't even have a problem with it
I don't feel disgusted by anyone in this documentary. They stay humans even in a distant area. There are enough places on this Earth, where despite all material virtues people act like animals. There're kids in this world that bring guns to school, some kids create cliques based on a brands of their clothes, bags, phones, evaluate each other based on material virtues. Some kids (teenagers rather) enter gangs. Wolves rise wolves.
I'm only worried that kids and teachers in this documentary are too pure for this world, hence not really protected from its challenges.
"China is the worlds largest communist state"
Andddd this is where I leave you
Exactly. In what world is China communist?
do you live here? China is still very communist... no matter how mnay Pizza Hut's, no matter how many Burger Kings are here...
MrPriego1
Of course because a country with an oppressive state and is pure capitalism = an ideology where there is no state, class or money
Not as oppressive as the USA where the police officers can brutally and abusively beat up unarmed citizens, shoot dead black suspects, TSA officers sadistically harass passengers, social workers have the right to abduct kids from parents, minors being are tried as adults and sent to adult prisons, the government could demolish the WTC murdering its civilians to use it as an excuse to invade Iraq, the US government supported by its citizens to invade Syria, Libya and Ukraine to create havoc and wars and turn people's life into hell. God is fair that He has permitted the Islamic militants to terrorise you double standard hypocrites. Make sure your turban won't get you harassed when you fly.
+Happy 888 In China the police officers have been known to be more brutal and abusive. Also you claim that the US is more oppressive, but in China the government could literally tear down people's homes without their consent.
FYI, not all of China is like this. This is a rural village
not like this though lol
i think that most people knew this. the thing that completely confirmed to me that china was a capitalist country was when i saw a bunch of christmas decorations around christmas time at one of the local city malls in china.
This would probably be the Chinese equivalent of a midwestern, US Christian school.
Nobody said all of China was like this
Great Man,Brilliant way with words.
I find it weird that he describes Maoism as "traditional values". Makes me think that he is just reliving his childhood. I feel bad for this guy, he seems sad.
He said "Maoism and traditional values" .
How is that equivalent to describing Maoism as traditional values ?
You're making things up .
That's because today's china follows fake Communism,revisionim
His life reminds me of winter. A very long, rainy winter, and cold floors.
I am Chinese and I am sure that no one in recent Chinese history was greater than him. Although he made all the bad decisions that resulted in deaths. We still think he did the greater good. Don't judge him when you know very little about him and most western media is pretty negative on him so that is extremely negative when you compare all the great things he did
2:33
'Today is like christmas day for Chinese people'
Well, golly they all look fucking excited...
why western media always focus on the odd stuff in china while ignoring that the majority of schools no longer teach that way. Making people from other countries feel like china is nationalism and dictated but it certainly not the truth.
现在中国的教育制度可不敢恭维，穷人家的孩子和富人家的孩子上的学完全不是一个档次
I kinda understand your point about "Western media",but maybe you need to figure out VICE first, this is what they do-"focusing on odd stuff"
国外也一样，有钱人家都是读私立学校
Why China still nationalist and racist?
China is nazi af
I'm Chinese but He is crazy man
"You loved the right wing, here's a right wing newspaper"
Surely that's a mistranslation? Mao loved the right wing?
Well, maybe. I mean he did shake hands with Nixon which kind of killed his credibility in revolutionary terms.
Hes referring to Deng Xiaoping, who succeeded Mao. You can hear and see him putting up a picture of Deng right before he says the right wing newspaper bit.
@@lucadhagat9364 Ahhh interesting insight. And if he's referring to Deng then that would make a little bit more sense. I would hardly call him 'right wing' though lmao.
@@whatamalike oh no he'd definitely be considered right wing, atleast economically. At the very least he was regarded as the leader of the right wing of the party
@@lucadhagat9364 fair point. Again, adopting free market economics in a communist state is a no no; even gorby didn't do that!
how did vice find this guy?
Li Haiyang probably through like how you find the recipe for napalm
Recommended by their journalists that present these
Man i wish that my school was this cool,
So they pray to their leader. Imagine if you prayed to Obama.
What a sickening thought... but then again most Americans pray to 2k year old zombie Jesus
I mean we still sing the star spangled banner and that shit happened a longg time ago
***** Why would you directly insult me when your an atheist and don't pray to him either? Your just fucked in the head it would seem.
***** Obama didn't kill 50 million people either, which was what I was commenting about.
they pray to celebrities
oh man, I came from that province in China, and never have I ever known about that village. I thought those kinds of extreme schooling system where they strongly promote communism died off after my parents' generation graduated, but apparently not. This is a good information to know.
Something truly special and beautiful about this
People who support communism typically support "libertarian" communism - where the government is benevolent and democratic and the people all willingly participate in the system. It's a lovely idea. Unfortunately, for large populations, communism requires a very authoritarian government that can enforce communism's strict laws. That's why most modern communist countries have a totalitarian oligarchy/dictatorship, police state, cult of personality around a supreme leader, etc. Libertarian communism is an oxymoron in the real world - and people who support it have to resort to "No True Scotsman" arguments to defend their ideology.
"That's why most modern communist countries have a totalitarian oligarchy/dictatorship, police state, cult of personality around a supreme leader, etc."
So when you say "most", I assume you also believe that a minority of modern communist countries are *not* totalitarian/etc? So then it follows that libertarian communism, by your own statement, has actually existed in modernity? Thus you have invalidated your own assertion that "Libertarian communism is an oxymoron in the real world"?
Your logic does not follow.
ceounicom You are so brilliant! I pointed out a hole in his argument, sans malicious intent, and you turn this into a pissing match.
I did not insert anything; I only pointed out the contradiction between his use of "most" and his assertion that "people who support it have to resort to "No True Scotsman" arguments to defend their ideology". If you're too dense to understand that this is a valid argument, then perhaps it is you yourself who should refrain from posting intellectually-vacuous replies.
And don't be a dickhead by trying mimic a stereotypical Asian accent. It contributes nothing towards your credibility.
And *****, would you kindly reply directly to me and explain why I am wrong or clarify your position, instead of outsourcing your defense to intellectual lightweights? I am sure that if you better explained yourself, I would agree with you. I am not a communist and feel no urge to toe the party line.
*****
Ahh, marxist interrectual is sad no one wants to play with his ball of word-sniping yarn. Why does word-sniper have no other friend to pray with? Maybe no one think lame cross-examination dialectic is actually fruitful, and full of reflexive reasoning and nonsense? Maybe numbnuts got degree from Bard, now no one want talk marxist with them now? Still owe $200,000 to some bank? So sad, this capitalisms....
ceounicom 10/10. Flawless troll.
Communism should be put in quotes. Like: China is the biggest "communist" country in the world (as in not really communist but still pretending to be communist just so they can save face)
Chinese rulers were fed up with being poor (relative to other rulers) and wanted to be competitive on the grand chess board. They used communist ideology to get their foot in the door, but once they were in they realized that they had higher aspirations than dominating a barely subsisting population on a giant hippy farm.
ik this is 9 years ago but by your definition Vladimir Lenin was also a pretend communist Deng Xiaoping got the idea of liberalisation from Lenin and Bukharin not western capitalists
I see nothing wrong with this
Go woke go broke
@@emptyhad2571 Stay right, goodnight.
North Korean schools in Japan are far more well-developed and less-nostalgic compared to this place. Fascinating short-documentary. Thanx
I grow up in china. I went to school in china. I never saw or heard of a school like this. There are millions of schools in china, maybe only one or two schools are like this one.
For people who are quick at making judgements... this teacher clearly treats Maoism almost religiously. To him, Mao is not simply a historical figure, but God. It doesn't matter what historical Mao did... this guy is simply exercising his religious freedom. So essentially his school is a "Church of Mao". That said, I do suspect he had some serious mental trauma from the Cultural Revolution and he hadn't recovered from that yet.
"......truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up......" Max Planck.
Yeah,for opponents bullets usually are a better choice 🤣
This one guy has more sense than most people in the world...
At least honour him for setting up school in such a remote place.
Make him party member. Or some party secretary on district level or something. His honesty is astounding.
Becoming member of the PCC is really hard. Xi Xinping tried 10 times before succeding (And he was the son of an important member of the party, just to show you how hard it is)
Good job on this one, Vice.
This teacher is great! I wish, i would have been educated on such schools.
*****
Why not? It´s all about friendship and harmony.
Actually, here on display are some very interesting cultural differences in how we view education here in the West vs. how the concept of education is viewed in the east. The general thinking in the east is that the primary role of childhood education is not to provide information that will one day be used in your future vocation. The primary purpose of education for young people is seen to be the moral/philosophical upbringing of that child - school exists primarily to make sure that your child turns out to be a good person. It is generally expected that vocational skills will be learned in the first year or two on the job as an adult. This learning happens once schooling has been completed. Generally, a mentor of some sort would be assigned on the job to oversee the worker's progress in learning work skills onsite. I didn't find this teacher to be some sort of brainwashing nutjob at all - on the contrary, this man seems to be a gentle and honest educator whose primary goal in life really is the education and upliftment of these young people. He also praised the Buddha briefly in the video, and it has to be assumed that he also was probably educating the children about some Buddhist moral principles as well. That part of what was going on just wasn't deemed sensational enough by the documentarians to warrant translation. This well-meaning scholarly fellow who by his own admission lacked very much formal education of his own was also clearly teaching these young children how to read and write, and basic arithmetic. So what exactly is so wrong with this school existing within the societal and historical framework that it arose from? I said the pledge of allegiance every morning in my public school, growing up. My whole public elementary school here in the United States sang the song "I'm Proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm Free," in UNISON. Hundreds upon hundreds of elementary school aged children were forced to memorize and then perform this song for the parents at a patriotism assembly, and nobody cried out "Brainwashing!" "Creepy!" "What substandard education these kids are receiving!" Nobody batted a single freaking eyelash about the event. Time for us as a country to get off our high horses about how we're so much better than China. Because we're actually not. There are more substandard schools than that all over the nation, quietly tucked away in inner cities.
This is why I believe China will achieve socialism. When you got people in your country who think like this and are raising the next generation to think like this, the liberals, rightists and capitalists will always have to watch their backs 😌
They would do better to watch their food supply if history is to go by.
@@AmericanBadger87 China used to have famines every few years. Their last famine was at the beginning of Mao Zedong's term. They haven't had a famine since.
@@TIENxSHINHAN not entirely true and the massive imports recently would still highlight that China isn’t food secure. The problem is that the famine you are referring to was entirely cpc generated.
Too many people saying that China is Communist. Have you never listened when we tell you that there's no hierarchy or currency in Communism? China is State Capitalist, as is North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and the late USSR as well.
☭Jakob Die Leninistischer☭ China isn't just state capitalist it's a weird and ugly mix of capitalism totaltarian dictatorship and corruption North Korea is a totalitarian absolute monarchy.
Wy Zhang Still colapse? It hasn't colapsed but pollution corruption economic crisis and hatred of the government will most likely lead to a collapse of the ccp's rule.
Wy Zhang Dude i am not anti chinese the ccp has done some good things but it's a fact corruption pollution band totalitarianism isn't a good mix.
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No, Cuba and North-Korea are socialist. The USSR was state capitalist after Stalin, indeed. China, Vietnam and Laos are fully capitalist right now, they just have authoritarian governments.
@@ZapatistaRebel1917 PEASANT REVOLUTION, Yellow Turban Rebellion Incoming!!
You can already from the quality of the school building that its not a good school
Being honest, it's hard to find any schools like this in China now...but most of them were like this in 1960s and 1970s.
"Worlds largest communist state." Derped out of control within the first 10 seconds, congratulations VICE, that's a new record!
Ah, looks both impressive and poor.
Thanks, VICE!
Under impressive I mean the story and the video
Under poor I mean the school and conditions
Влад Векленко It's also quite a good summary of China.
BobWaffleMan well, this kind of China. If you take Shang...Shanh...fuck, Shanghai(right?) - then it's absolutely different.
SpaceFox indeed the country is pretty divided economically and culturally. There are cities like Shanghai that are equal or better than NY, and there are these places.
I'm impressed. You find a single tiny rural school which meets the stereotypical view of what life in China is like and you build your whole story around that. Resurgent Maoism in the country side is an interesting topic, but it needs to be counterbalanced with the rest of China's breakneck modernisation. I teach Chinese students in shanghai and the contrast couldn't be starker.
bowing down to just one man
Education can never "not be saved:" Looks like they are just living in prosperity and freedom...... Knowledge has always been the key, always.
are u crazy? in EU&Russia this would be considered a sect
我几乎是一直笑着看完的，真的太逗了，这个老师简直就跟刚出土的文物一样一样的。
人活着钱没了 這應該不是整個大陸的幼兒園吧
这是台湾的现状啊。。。
真的没想到还会有这种学校出现
是啊，真当全中国都像这样
我感觉没有什么不好的啊 基本理念是值得学习的
*beautiful and inspiring!*
what a good man, he loves those children
Attempt at trolling?
no you can see that he is very happy, and when he talks about is mother he started crying, he is a sensible man, for the mao propaganda, this is the chinese cultur, just like our commercial in television, that brainwash people to buy a lot of useless things
did this mans just say that china was the worlds largest country?
This man is mad.Nonsense.Only a small part of China like him.I feel sad for this school.
James Wang 我看得懂啊，你别血口喷人好么。你说说哪个中国一线城市是像这样子的？这校长明明就是个疯子
Yup, we all know that it’s the 1% of China that is still like this.
I'm high and this is wholesome
4:12 slip of the tongue or the truth. This guy said ``Chairman Mao isn't a human.''
LMAO, LA CHAIRMAN MAO
My parents said when they were young, this happened in all the schools. But in these days, I have never seen someone teach children like this. This only occurs in rarely small village, it can't represent the whole Chinese education anyway. By the way communist musics are awesome.
Putting aside the political discussions, are the people in the school speaking a particular dialect of Chinese unique to that region? It has a very peculiar sound.
This short documentary shows there is hope in China even in the poorest region. The teacher has a strong spirit of what is right and what is wrong.
What you see here reflects a small minority in China. Mao's practices are but altogether, dying. There's a new book that people in China are reading now. It is called: "The Governance of China" by Xi Jin Ping. It features 80 speeches delivered by Mr. Xi. Inside that book, if you take the effort to read it, reflects the psyche of the top leader in China right now. And the main getaway from the book is that the China of the future is all about pragmatism and realism. What you see here is the China of the past, romanticize by one small individual. It is the China of the now and future that will shape the world. And while the west continues to point out the weakness of a past China, China forges on. Eyes always on the prize. Relentless. Progressive. I am picking up Mandarin. And may I be so bold to suggest you should too.
i figured that maoism was almost dead but still had a few isolated enclaves where the people were very poor still supporting it. that's how large countries are like. there are always going to be regions where the people living there are a bit slower and less educated the the rest of the general population.
> What you see here is the China of the past, romanticize by one small individual.
Yeah, that is the implicit message I got from the video. Unfortunately the subtlety will be lost on lots of people.
*****
kind of like a british guy trying to live and romanticize the days of the british empire.
YAY DICTATORSHIPS, SO FUCKING ROMANTIC, I LOVE BEING ENSLAVED
xi is a revisionist and an imperialist. to what end should china become the dominant world power if its just going to behave like all of the previous hegemons? the revolution died with Mao
wow, as a Chinese student, i do not even know there is a kind of school in China.....
It's a big place.
you all have 1.35 billion people. americans are the same way whenever we hear of a remote place in the usa.
do you know about the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
Because you are ignorant
As a mainland chinese grew up in China, I have to say the guy portrayed in this video consists of less than 0.001% of Chinese. The cult kind of education shown in this video is a far too extreme minority. Actually I am also stunned to such kind of hardcore communism school still exists.
I feel sad for the students there, and I feel fear, fear that there's parents actually send their kids there. And sorrow, for such place still exists in China.
I cannot stop laughing at first, but when it ends, I am about to cry.
Damn I wish I grew up in a school like this
Right.
@@zenokarlsbach4292 why?
This man has 1 billion social credit score!
Finally! You've included scores in your credits!
7:19 - 7:30
at least he has some heart
"China is the world's largest country."
2 sentences in and he's confusing me whether he means population or area. awesome.
Almost all the documentaries and videos that I saw about China emphasize the dark side and simply ignore the great side. Chinese people are more free than what many people think. People imagine China as a terribly censored communist country. However, many don't realize how open it is today compare to the past. My grandmother, almost 80 years old, lives in China for her entire life, discussed the election of Trump with me a few months ago. Some old people that live in small villages in China talk about the presidential election in USA. Chinese people don't bring money or credit card when they go shopping, a phone can solve everything, people can pay anywhere for anything with their phone. I know that my country is not perfect, but it is improving.
I was born, raised and educated in China. I was shocked to learn this type of education is still existing in China. Obviously this is an extreme case. Please don't think all the schools are like that in China. PS: I know where you are from, VICE. People love consuming extreme information and that's why you keep making videos like this. This video has already caused a lot of misunderstanding and hatred from what I can tell.
Commmunism is a great idea for more rural areas, where people really don't own much. I think it's not a good way for larger cities though.
Either way, economic communism doesn't produce anything of worth, quality of life tanks down, and alcohol consumption skyrockets.
The comments below shows that 90% people failed to understand what this video was about. They were so extremely uninformed and confused about the most basic concepts. Stay in school, read more, learn a foreign language, travel abroad, then come back to watch this video again, you will be glad you did.
Well, they are more like the Westboro Baptist Church of China.
Imagine those people being in charge of the whole of China, they did, it was hell.
@@Nathan-jh1ho The communist world is indeed utopian, but he is committed to eradicating order and inequality, and communism is great in this respect. China is not as uncomfortable as the video. After all, the media is in line with the political correctness of the Western world in order to smash the head, and the material is spliced. Just like the montage of the Soviet Union, it gives him a special meaning.
wish i went to this school
Sort the subtitles out ffs. They are supposed to coincide with readability not the timing of the speaker
Mao is a great theorist and one of the main founders of the PRC. However the cultural revolution is his worst legacy. Luckily nowadays people are more even-handed when judging Mao's success and failure. This guy is still living in the 70s... I think China's shift from extreme communism to scientific socialism is a very wise move.
I work in another Far East country, and I can say that the students learn only by repetition and copying what the teacher writes on the board-no independent thinking or creativity. Some students are bound to spend their lives working in the fields and small factories due to backward education.
You happen to be in a Far East country illegally occupied by the US imperialists?
“Copy” is a first step of learing
ow the edge in this comment section
I'm bleeding
don't cut yourself
You still alive?
Russia is the world's largest country, not China.
+Adam Romanenko Shithole is between your legs. Russia is net creditor nation, with one of lowest debts in G-20, one of highest gold reserves and now still buying in despite this poor, laughable sanctions.
+Rooster Montgomery China is the world's largest country in terms of population. The world's largest country in terms of land mass goes to Russia.
+Rex Lat sure debt is low, why should companies invest in russia instead of europe, united states etc ...russia is corrupt as f..ck, the standart of living is a joke, just check the gdp per capita, corruption index, better life index etc...nothing innovativ, world-changing is coming out of russia sry ...no wonder that so many russians move to western europe or already live there...life is superior here, greetz from germany.
Master2Khof Debt means that one does not own specific thing, isnt that obvious!? Russia does not need nay investments, as Russia is almost autarky. It can provide anything without any foreign trades.
Yes, Russia is corrupt, but you can't even compare corrupt enviroment and politics in U.S and E.U. I have friends and countless contacts who work in Brussels and one of largest European news agencies. You simply have no idea about censorship, corruption in Western world. In fact, it is well known about U.S corruption now. Just ask Snoweden, lol!
[standart of living is a joke] - It is not about GDP or some idiotic index which is made by poll results, that makes no any connection to average living standards anyway. It is all about AVERAGE purchasing power, which in Russia is higher, despite country 15 years ago still was destroyed completely.
[russians move to...] - Nope, idiot. They are buying real estate, just like here in Latvia, with very cheap prices of homes, make dachas and then move further. You seriously have no idea about it, do you? Go to Jūrmala here in Latvia (one of richest cities and international tour sites), every house, which was once owned by richest Latvians are now owned by richest Russians, Belorussians and Scandinavians. Heck, even almost half London is owned by Russian privates.
+Rex Lat purchasing power is higher ok...u don't know what the fuck your talking about....the country was destroyed? u destroyed your own country and whole eastern europe with your great idea of communism...buying real estate... 0,5 percent of your people maybe... most russians live here so that they can afford something in life...your infrastructure is very bad, healthcare is shit, wages are 1/5 of ours, jurisdiction is a joke, your ,,middle-class is lacking 50 years behind...i've been to russia several times lipetsk , kazan, moscow...but ok you are right russian standart of living is equal to denmark, germany, sweden, austria, netherlands etc facepalm...we have our problems here but it is getting ridicules how underdeveloped countries like russia now think they are as good as the west...dream on kid, or just take a ride through western europe and learn... i'm out!
Did the fireworks cut scare anyone else?
Unbelievably based!
"China is the world's largest country"
Well, don't tell that to the Russians or the Canadians they'll get all crazy and try to disprove you with math.
*****
Yea, I am sure he misspoke but it was still pretty funny.
Ravensteinzh
That is correct.
Ravensteinzh
Where did you get your numbers from?
Canada
total: 9,976,140 sq km
land: 9,220,970 sq km
water: 755,170 sq km
China
total: 9,596,960 sq km
land: 9,326,410 sq km
water: 270,550 sq km
CIA world fact book
China is still bigger in land mass if you didn't want to include lakes.
I am just not sure why you wouldn't want to include lakes.
Ravensteinzh
Also that doesn't change the fact that Russia is bigger... Much Much bigger.
Oh and I've heard the US uses fuzzy numbers to put itself as 3rd above China so I didn't include that.
*****
Large refers to size, and more specifically refers to width. Only a stupid person, or a stupid editor, would be able to watch this intro and not cringe.
Dude's crazy.
@@MCP-MZT 怎么说呢，我更倾向于乔治奥威尔
@@MCP-MZT 毛这一辈子最讨厌儒家学说，这校长确实挺可怜的，看了之后心里真的不好受，想当年60年代向全世界输出革命的时候，日本红色风暴的时候，一去不复返了
he said that only maoist thought can save the traitors and the corrupted....but refuse to accept kids older than 13 into his school because they can't be saved any longer lol the irony
As a Chinese I am shocked there is such school exist..poor kids.
A little off topic but China now has the largest economy in the world.
Damn. I wish I had a childhood to spend in a school like that. Looks awesome compared to the boring ass Sunday schools teaching American Jesus in the US-occupied Philippines
As a Chinese I got say, this man is crazy, and it's hard to believe there is a primary school like this in china. Then i searched for more info,here is something more about it, news.163.com/photoview/00AN0001/41094.html#p=9G9QD3KT00AN0001. Basically , this man established this school himself, since "there is no one understand him, and public school do not hire him at all." He is an extremist , a maoist, also a kind of anti-intellectualism. And he anti genetic engineering,too. There are less students now, and he blamed to US imperialism ,lol. By the way, it's not just u gays shocked by this, many Chinese are shocked,too.
Vice, is there anyway I could get in contact with this man?
I come from a very wealthy background however my family is extremely conservative. My father is dying of cancer and he has 3 months left to live, when he dies I will inherit all his wealth and take over the family business.
My reason for wanting to get in touch with this man is so I can fund millions of dollars into his program.
What the hell
Did he really say "China is the world's largest country" right at the start of the video?
China is the largest by population. Russia is largest by size.
China now has the largest PPP GDP in the world, it's time for us to step up our game.
More schools need to be like this. The world would be a better place
The Red Front, break into pieces!
No, that would suck. The only things good about Communism are the aesthetics, and the critique of Capitalism.
b8 so gud m8 made me ejacul8
***** no I did not say that. China today is different from China 60 years ago. They are teaching the children about Mao's teaching and thought. If you actually watched the video, people SEND their children there. It is a choice. I would probably learn a lot more there then I would in a horrible American school filled with a bunch of clueless Americans with no values in life whatsoever.
no. here any good things about Communism :D I have tried it for about 20 years, trust me :D
Thanks for the video, it’s well made. However as a Chinese myself, I can’t bring myself to believe half of what this guy is mumbling. He has issues. And it’ll be foolish to assume that the majority of Chinese population is like him.
this is a very one sided documentary, showing one of the poorest most secluded village in china, possibly the most maoist village in china , in major city or towns no one could give one fuck about mao
This isn't depicting all of China, and no one ever even implies that, so your point is invalid.
VintageLJ No, they did not mention that it was a specific case, if I were a westerner I d think all of China would have these schools. Being raised in China, to me this video seems crazy and backwards to me, shame on VICE, again picked a sensational minority story to try and catch views about China.
collin ohlinger it depends on how do you define propaganda. Similar applies to the US and many so-called democratic countries.
collin ohlinger if this propaganda is about loving your country, it is true, if it is about Mao worship, it definitely not. All the history book in Chinese school mentioned that Mao made big mistakes when he was old
sharing is NOT caring. sharing is communism. never share.
You said children over 13 has no hope of recovering from the pollution of corruption, but yet, you said corrupt officials and traitors could be saved?
Such contradiction.
Such logic.
they look so happy