Russ Steele
Taking a lesson from the progressives who have taken over the American education system, spending more time on indoctrination than teaching, China has joined the propaganda brigade.
From Politico:
Last year, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte made an announcement to great fanfare: The university would soon open a branch of the Confucius Institute, the Chinese government-funded educational institutions that teach Chinese language, culture and history. The Confucius Institute would “help students be better equipped to succeed in an increasingly globalized world,” says Nancy Gutierrez, UNC Charlotte’s dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and “broaden the University’s outreach and support for language instruction and cultural opportunities in the Charlotte community,” according to a press release.
But the Confucius Institutes’ goals are a little less wholesome and edifying than they sound—and this is by the Chinese government’s own account. A 2011 speech by a standing member of the Politburo in Beijing laid out the case: “The Confucius Institute is an appealing brand for expanding our culture abroad,” Li Changchun said. “It has made an important contribution toward improving our soft power. The ‘Confucius’ brand has a natural attractiveness. Using the excuse of teaching Chinese language, everything looks reasonable and logical.” (more here)
Check out the list below are one of your children exposed to China's propaganda? There are 110 US institutions on the list take from the Confucius Institute website:
Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University
Confucius Institute at the College of William & Mary
Confucius Institute at China Institute
Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas
Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute at Boston
Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa
Confucius Institute at Michigan State University
Confucius Institute at Pace University
Confucius Institute at the University of Oklahoma
Confucius Institute at Purdue University
Confucius Institute at the University of Missouri
Confucius Institute at North Carolina State University
Confucius Institute at Bryant University
Confucius Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles
Confucius Institute at University of California, Davis
Confucius Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Confucius Institute at Portland State University
Confucius Institute at the University of Rhode Island
Confucius Institute at Community College of Denver
Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University
Confucius Institue at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh
Confucius Institute at Arizona State University
Confucius Institute at the University of Oregon
Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis
Confucius Institute at Wayne State University
Confucius Institute at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Confucius Institute at the University of Central Arkansas
Confucius Institute at Valparaiso University
Confucius Institute at Miami University
Confucius Institute in Indianapolis
Confucius Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University
Confucius Institute at Troy University
Confucius Institute at the University of Utah
Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona
Confucius Institute at Xavier University of Louisiana
Confucius Institute at Houston Independent School District
Confucius Institute at Broward County Public Schools
Confucius Institute at East Central Ohio Educational Service Center
Confucius Institute at Colorado State University
Confucius Institute at Auburn University at Montgomery
Confucius Institute at Old Dominion University
Confucius Institute at Central Connecticut State University
Confucius Institute at Texas Southern University
Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas
Confucius Institute at Webster University
Confucius Institute at the University of South Florida
Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota
Confucius Institute in Atlanta
Confucius Institute at the University of Akron
Confucius Institute at the University of Montana
Confucius Institute at the University of South Carolina
Confucius Institute at Cleveland State University
Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University
Confucius Institute at San Diego State University
Confucius Institute at the University of Toledo
Confucius Institute at Alfred University
Confucius Institute at Stony Brook University
Confucius Institute at George Mason University
Confucius Institute at Presbyterian College
Confucius Institute at University of Michigan
Confucius Institute at Western Michigan University
Confucius Institute of the State of Washington
Confucius Institute at the George Washington University
Confucius Institute at the University of Idaho
Confucius Institute at the University of Southern Maine
Confucius Institute at University of West Florida
Confucius Institute at Prairie View A&M University
Confucius Institute at the University at Albany, State University of New York
Confucius Institute at Dickinson State University
Confucius Institute at St. Cloud State University
Confucius Institute at Augusta University
Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College
Confucius Institute at Middle Tennessee University
Confucius Institute at University of Tennessee
Confucius Institute at Wesleyan College
Confucius Institute at State College of Optometry, State University of New York
Confucius Institute in Chicago
Confucius Institute for Business at State University of New York
Confucius Institute at Columbia University
Confucius Institute at State University of New York at Buffalo
Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University
Confucius Institute at Stanford University
Confucius Institute at West Kentucky University
Confucius Institute at the University of Kentucky
Confucius Institute at the University of Delaware
Confucius Institute at the University of New Hampshire
Confucius Institute at Georgia State University
Confucius Institute at University of Alaska Anchorage
Confucius Institute at the Northern State University
Confucius Institute at Tufts University
Confucius Institute at Kansas State University
Confucius Institute at University of North Florida
Confucius Institute at Alabama A&M University
Confucius Institute at California State University, Long Beach
Confucius Institute at Temple University
Confucius Institute at West Virginia University
Confucius Institute at Southern Utah University
Confucius Institute at New Jersey City University
Confucius Institute at Clark County School District
Confucius Institute at Davis School Disrict
Confucius Institute at Savannah State University
Confucius Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Confucius Institute at Northwest Nazarene University
What are your children learning?
Its not just the colleges and industrial technology theft-
http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-officer-zhen-cheng-li-arrested-for-retaining-classified-info-2018-1
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 17 January 2018 at 12:39 PM
re: The OP.
I ran into that a while ago but didn't think much of it. I can't say that it's much different than the exporting of pro-US media and education programs over the entire post-war period.
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, I wonder if those Chinese programs have been designed to weaken the West somehow, or just to promote Chinese values and language? If the latter, what should the Green Libertarians make of exporting the model of a highly nationalistic ethnostate?
Posted by: Scenes | 17 January 2018 at 12:52 PM
Posted by: Scenes | 17 January 2018 at 12:52 PM
If the latter, what should the Green Libertarians make of exporting the model of a highly nationalistic ethnostate?
I'm sure that on the progressive scorecard ethnic Pokemon points negate their Chinese nationalistic impulses!
Posted by: fish | 17 January 2018 at 01:10 PM
George
What freedom of curriculum do you support for Charter School? Should that be left up to the parents whose children are in the Charters?
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 01:30 PM
PaulE 130pm - Charter schools are also staffed by professional educators. These should be sensitive to any ideological preponderance of their students' parents when designing cultural curricula (e.g. history, civics, literature, ...). In the more 'objective subjects' such as in STEM education, they should devise curricula that gives their students skills that enable them to have the most choices in continuing education and/or careers, given the academic preparation and intellectual measures of their student body.
Posted by: George Rebane | 23 January 2018 at 01:41 PM
What if the parents desire something different such as a Waldorf influenced curriculum or a spiritual directed influence. Should the parents have the ability to influence the Charter in that way under the umbrella of public education?
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 02:05 PM
One would think that since China is now a major trading partner, and soon to be the global economic leader (especially in alternative energy while the US drowns in good old boys making a lot of bucks with no future fossil fuel) learning the language and culture would be wise especially in the business world. When Japan became important to American commerce and corporations began doing business with the Japanese the early cultural blunders led to the "ugly American" effect and did significant damage to early business relationships.. Shortly thereafter Japanese became the language and cultural studies subjects de jour in colleges, especially for business majors. Nothing new here just a new player.
Painting this as some form of commie plot (as suggested by the common associations related to the word "indoctrination") is beyond naive and paranoid. China is no longer a communist state. It more resembles the hybrid nordic model of part socialism part capitalism.
Global capitalism is creating world market places where the same goods appear all over. Multi-culturalism and racial homogenization are the direct result of global marketing. People see other cultures and adopt aspects of them. Mostly this is a west to east movement as western consumerism and products are being sold and adopted globally as standards of living rise in the third world. Most of these goods are manufactured in China.
Posted by: Robert Cross | 23 January 2018 at 02:09 PM
PaulE 205pm - consistent with my 141pm, yes, if the constitute a significant majority of the students attending.
RobertC 209pm - "(China) more resembles the hybrid nordic model of part socialism part capitalism." That is such an ignorant assessment that it leaves me gasping for air. Is that what they are teaching you on MSNBC and CNN?
Posted by: George Rebane | 23 January 2018 at 02:16 PM
George
I agree with you on this.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 02:21 PM
My son got less Catholicism at Mount St. Mary's Academy than a Yuba River Charter kid would get Steiner's anthroposoporrifics embedded into the curriculum. YRCS, one of the worst schools in California by the STAR/API testing, is getting rewarded for its mediocrity with a brand new physical site costing a ton o money with anthroposopothy designed into the classrooms.
So, should the money follow the student to whatever school they attend? Four years after my kid left MSM, his class in primary school was overrepresented among the kids with above 4.0 GPAs all of whom are called valedictorians, a very strange practice relegating the kid with a 3.99 the class salutatorian as a cruel booby prize.
I wonder... how are kids from Yuba River Charter doing in their classes at NUHS... no, don't bother answering with anecdotes, Paul. Public data.
Posted by: Gregory | 23 January 2018 at 02:31 PM
Why not contact Yuba Charter Gregory. they have the data and would be willing to share it. I haven't been directly involved with the school for 10 years.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 03:04 PM
Note to Paul. They don't listen.(or really give a crap)
I sent one of mine there years ago. I see outcome based education is still alive and well.
Posted by: Walt | 23 January 2018 at 03:25 PM
They have the data of student GPA's four years after graduation? I don't think so, Paul. They have the same anecdotes you've shared here.
There's also the problem of their cherrypicking of students with accomplished parents, at least on paper. Income and education. So if they produce graduates that are 6th decile accomplishment, if they started with 10th decile expectation kids, they're holding their students back.
That's the sort of data that is needed... the STAR results, the Academic Performance Index, the 100 Similar Schools list. It doesn't exist past about 2013.
Posted by: Gregory | 23 January 2018 at 03:27 PM
You should contact the school Gregory. I haven't had close associations with them for 10 years. Most of the kids I knew breezed through NU many in two years.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 03:32 PM
George R 216pm
To be specific to the Yuba River Charter and the Grass Valley Charter schools, neither disclose to parents their piss poor past performance in math, possibly killing the chances for their students to hit the ground running at a University of California in a math-based curriculum, from math, physics, chemistry and engineering. Assuming they even get into a good school.
I think a better way to ask the question is "should tax money be given to schools that do NOT provide an curriculum demonstrated to lead to grade level competence in mathematics by the end of the 8th grade (12th grade for high schools)?"
Posted by: Gregory | 23 January 2018 at 03:36 PM
Seems Gregory and myself have first hand knowledge Paul.
My kid was there 10 or so years ago. It sucked then.
So "we" lived it. Did you have skin in the game? Or just a salesman for the joint?
Posted by: Walt | 23 January 2018 at 03:48 PM
Gregory 336pm - I think you're having this conversation with PaulE. My 216pm was an answer to his question.
Posted by: George Rebane | 23 January 2018 at 03:48 PM
Family involved yes, my Stepson.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 03:55 PM
Looks like you're asking for more regulations Gregory. Hmmm
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 January 2018 at 03:56 PM