cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3358546
Had someone mention this to me in conversation this weekend. Not something I knew, but honestly, not something I really cared about either. I just said a lot of Chinese nationals attend American university. A large part of the student population in the university/town I live in is Chinese. They followed up with “Sure, a specific class of Chinese though right?”. My response being ,“Yeah wealthy business owners send their kids here.” They said “I was just surprised, wouldn’t he worry about her getting indoctrinated?” I said they get taught Marxism from like kindergarten, so no, probably not.
It really felt like a strange thing to bring up. I forget the context it came up in. This wasn’t presented as some counter argument to anything, bit I do wonder where this little factoid comes from.
I see that RFA reported on her being outed as going to Harvard and the person getting jail time for it (for what its worth). Other then that, nothing substantial really.
So what’s up with this? Is this some kind of lingering gotcha fed to libs to regurgitate when the topic is right?
As someone who studied abroad I can say that it is an eye opening and horizon broadening experience. It’s possible that she turns out to be a weird gusano but that is not that only reason for or outcome of going to a big American university, especially considering that USA is a cultural and economic hegemon that China has to work closely with.