Hello, everyone!
Welcome to “Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer
Zeng”.
If you are following me on Twitter, you might
have seen me tweet a lot of videos lately
about the Mongolian people’s protests against
the Chinese Communist Party’s, (the CCP’s)
decision to cancel Mongolian language instruction
in Mongolian schools.
I called it “cultural genocide” in my
first tweet.
What happened exactly?
Why would the CCP do such a thing?
Does the CCP intend to replace Mongolian language
and culture with Chinese language and culture?
If I say that the CCP has long since launched
a cultural genocide on the Chinese language
and culture too, would that make sense to
you?
If not, please don’t go away.
I will explain later about this very important
issue that many people fail to realize.
First, let me briefly talk about the latest
situation in Inner Mongolia or Southern Mongolia.
On Aug. 26, the Mongolian Government's Department
of Education announced that starting from
the new school year on September 1, all primary
and secondary schools in Inner Mongolia will
begin to use Chinese language teaching materials.
The government explained that “General Secretary
Xi Jinping pointed out that education is a
major national and Party project.
The construction of teaching materials is
of national importance.”
Therefore the Party has established the “National
Textbook Committee” in July 2017 to further
strengthen the management and use of teaching
materials in universities, primary and secondary
schools, and colleges as a national initiative;
and a set of national “standardized teaching
materials” for three subjects including
Chinese language, politics (ethics and the
rule of law) and history was created and put
in use since Sep. 2017 in all primary and
secondary schools in China, as well as in
Xinjing.
In 2018, schools in Tibet also started to
adopt these “standardized teaching materials”
in Chinese.
And from Sep 1 this year, ethnic schools in
six provinces including Inner Mongolia, Gansu,
Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, and Sichuan, are
also required to adopt these textbooks.
The CCP has made it very clear: “Textbooks
embody the will of the Party and the State,
reflect the major concerns of the people,
preserve China's outstanding culture and the
advanced achievements of human civilization,
and are an important vehicle for resolving
the fundamental questions of what kind of
people to nurture, how to nurture them, and
for whom to nurture them.
Textbooks have a direct bearing on the implementation
of the Party's education policy and the realization
of educational goals.”
So to put it in simple language, textbooks
and education in school must serve the party,
and the party’s needs.
Although the CCP claims that the current “bi-lingual”
instruction system will not change, and apart
from the first grade of primary school and
secondary school, students in other grades
can continue to get instructions in both ethnic
languages including Mongolian and Korean language,
so the schools are still having “bi-lingual”
system.
However, as the first-grade students can only
study the “standardized” Chinese language
textbooks from now on, several years later,
after the current students of grade 2 to grade
6 graduate, all students will be studying
Chinese language textbooks only.
And then, after several decades or sooner,
perhaps nobody will know how to speak the
Mongolian language anymore, and the language
and culture will gradually die out.
That’s how serious it is.
If you understand the above, you will understand
why large scale protests have broken out in
many cities in Inner Mongolia.
Tens of thousands of students and parents
launched strikes and protests.
Some schools forced students to take classes,
while brave students stormed out of the school
as a protest.
At one school in Tongliao City, a student
jumped to her death after being shut inside
the school and seeing her mom beaten by police.
Video clips show that military armored vehicles
appeared on the streets of Inner Mongolia,
students got arrested by the CCP police, and
some shops are not allowed to sell Mongolian
language books.
In the meantime, the CCP ordered all cadres
and employees to send their children to school.
A comprehensive investigation needs to be
conducted to find out who hasn’t sent their
children to school.
Those who don’t will be punished.
The latest news gathered from a meeting at
the Inner Mongolia University was:
1.
The order to cancel Mongolian language education
is from CCP’s head Xi Jinping.
2.The CCP thinks, as usual, that the protests
in Inner Mongolia were induced by “anti-Chinese
separatists” outside the country.
Those who collaborate with foreign forces
need to be arrested.
3.
It is prohibited to mention that "bilingual
education" is unconstitutional.
4.
The relevant regulations in the Constitution
will be amended in the future.
By the way, the CCP keeps “amending” the
Constitution all the time.
5.
Everyone must accept the "bilingual education"
unconditionally.
6.
All forms of protest must stop.
As I mentioned earlier, Inner Mongolia is
not the first and only target of the CCP’s
cultural genocide.
The so-called “standardized” Chinese language
textbooks have already been adopted in Xinjiang
and Tibet in 2017 and 2018, only the outside
world didn’t know much about it.
Several days ago, on Aug 28-29, the CCP held
its “ 7th Tibet Work Forum” in Beijing.
Xi Jinping made an “important” speech,
in which he said, “We must adhere to the
leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,
the socialist system with Chinese characteristics
and the system of regional autonomy”.
He also stressed that the CCP needed to “strengthen
education and guidance for the masses, widely
mobilize them to participate in the anti-secession
struggle, and form a brass wall to maintain
stability”, to “carry out in-depth education
on the history of the Party, the new China,
reform and opening-up, and the development
of socialism, as well as on the relationship
between Tibetan regions and the motherland
(China), and guide the masses of all ethnic
groups to establish a correct outlook on the
country, history, ethnicity, culture, and
religion.”
He also said that “We should actively guide
Tibetan Buddhism to adapt to a socialist society
and promote the Chineseization of Tibetan
Buddhism.”
We all know that since the CCP’s occupation
of Tibet in the 1950s, hundreds of thousands,
some say as many as 1.2 million Tibetans have
been killed.
Religious persecution has never stopped, and
the cruelty is astonishing.
In Mongolia, mass killing and persecution
have also happened frequently.
In the so-called “Inner Mongolia incident”
during 1967-1969, over a million people were
categorized as members of the already-dissolved
Inner Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party,
tens of thousands were killed.
Methods of torture were most terrifying.
Branding with hot irons, feeding furnace wastes,
removing livers, hanging, cutting tongues
and noses, piercing nails, piercing vaginas,
pouring hot saline water into wounds, etc,
were all applied to Mongolians.
When I lived in Australia years ago, I met
Professor Yuan Hongbin, who was born and grew
up in Inner Mongolia.
He personally saw such a scene in a village,
and I personally heard him telling this story:
During the “Inner Mongolia incident”,
several CCP soldiers hung an old Mongolian
man on a tree, with his two hands and two
legs tied together from behind.
Underneath the old man was a big iron pot
with a diameter of nearly two meters.
The soldiers burned the empty iron pot until
it was red, then slowly lowered the man closer
and closer to the pot, then pushed open his
clothes, and exposed his naked belly to the
burning red pot.
Then suddenly the old man’s belly burst
with a bang, and his intestines fell into
the red-hot pot and immediately scurried up
like a snake…
I am sorry if this is too horrible to hear.
But imagine that the people had to suffer
through this and watch it happen right before
their very eyes…
This kind of cruelty is hard to maintain,
though.
So after the CCP successfully suppressed down
the rebellion, it tried to create an impression
that all ethnic groups can live in harmony,
happiness, and freedom under the CCP’s rule.
However, the CCP’s desire to control, enslave,
and assimilate every ethnicity is too strong
for itself to hold back its effort to try
to turn every group into its submissive slaves.
If an ethnic group still has its own language,
culture, and religion, it can never become
100% slaves of the CCP.
That’s why for decades, the CCP has been
trying to marginalize and then eliminate other
cultures and languages.
And that’s why we are seeing the latest
round of the CCP’s attempt to wipe out the
Mongolian language.
For the CCP, if something cannot be used or
controlled by the party, it is useless and
should certainly be wiped out.
The danger is, after decades of suppression,
brainwashing, and buying over, some people
have become numb or accustomed to their situations,
like frogs being boiled slowly in warm water,
they no longer feel the danger until it is
too late.
If the CCP can successfully push down the
protest and achieve its goal in Southern Mongolia
this time, I don’t know what that would
mean for the Mongolian culture and Mongolian
people.
Many years ago, I was invited to speak at
a human rights forum at the Western Sydney
University in Australia.
A Tibetan community leader was also invited.
I remember after he talked about the human
rights violations in the CCP occupied Tibet,
he said something like, “Let’s put China
in the ‘naughty corner’”, which means
China should be punished for the atrocities
suffered by the Tibetans.
After hearing him saying that, I stood up
and said, “Can I make a suggestion?
Can we say ‘put the CCP in the naughty corner’
instead of China?”
Then I went on to say that the CCP was not
only the enemy of Tibetan people and Tibetan
culture, but also the enemy of Chinese people
and Chinese culture.
Only because the CCP also uses the Chinese
language to do evil, many people failed to
realize that the CCP has also committed cultural
genocide to Chinese people and Chinese culture.
Why did I say that?
If we only talk about the language itself,
the CCP modified, or “simplified” the
Chinese characters in the 1950s.
About 2500 Chinese characters have been “simplified”
and changed.
As a result, the deep cultural connotation
of the Chinese language has been lost.
For example, the traditional Chinese character
for love “ai（愛）” has a Chinese word
for heart (心）in it; but the simplified
Chinese character for love (爱）no longer
has the word “heart” in it.
Can “love” without a heart still be love?
Another example is the traditional Chinese
word “qin (親)“.
This word means family, dear, close, etc.
In the process of simplification, half of
the character qin, which is “jian(見)“
was cut off, with only half of the original
character left.
The cut-off part means “see, look, meet”.
So people say that in CCP’s China, families
are no longer meant to see one another because
the word “see” was cut off from the word
for family.
There are many, many other similar examples,
and I am afraid that I don’t have time to
talk about them all.
The Chinese language is one of the most ancient,
most profound, and yet most simple languages
in the world.
Although there are tens of thousands of Chinese
characters in total, the most commonly used
ones are only about 3500 characters.
So out of the 3500 characters, 2500 were modified,
or simplified, would you say that this language
is still the original Chinese language?
No, it has already been greatly altered beyond
recognition.
If we talk about the connotation of the Chinese
language, the damage and alterations are even
greater.
Language does not exist alone, or independently.
Inside the language, there are culture, religion,
values, traditions, and new expressions coming
into being with new social development, new
science, and technology.
Ever since the CCP took power in China, it
has been constantly eliminating or wiping
out traditional Chinese culture and values,
as well as religions.
It re-wrote and re-interpreted the Chinese
history, and “simplified” it into a history
of “class struggles”, of the ruled class
throwing out the ruling class, and a process
of preparing Chinese society for socialism
and then ultimately communism.
If we look at the history of China before
the CCP, it was a history deeply embodied
with spiritual pursuit.
For thousands of years, Chinese people practiced
Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and pursued
spiritual perfection, or consummation.
These have already been embodied in Chinese
people’s everyday life and everyday language.
However, the CCP has barbarously eliminated
almost all of the real essence of Chinese
culture and used its “simplified” Chinese
words to establish a party culture, a CCP
culture that is full of violence, hatred,
inadequacy, ugliness, and pursuit for the
material, and desires only.
For example, if you read ancient Chinese poems
or novels, there were so many different ways
to describe the beauty of a lady.
Each of them had their own, unique beauty,
characteristics, and charms; and they lived
vividly in your mind and imagination.
However, nowadays, it seems that there is
only one way left to describe a good looking
young lady, which is, “顏值很高”,
which means she scores high with her appearance.
Sometimes they also say “顏值能打“,
or “顏值吊打” , “顏值碾壓“,
which means her appearance can beat that of
others.
So in other words, they mark the beauty of
different human beings with the same kind
of scoring system, and those who score higher
have the right to look down upon or run over
those who score lower.
What kind of nonsense is that, right?
And when they talk about young, handsome men,
they call them “小鮮肉“, which means
”young, fresh meat”, or “young, fresh
flesh”.People are no longer referred to
as human beings with a soul but are reduced
to a piece of meat, or living, walking meat,
at most.
This kind of ugly and disgusting language
is everywhere on the Internet, and young people
use it every day without even feeling any
issues using it.
If we were to discuss this further, there’s
so much more to explore, but I’m afraid
that I wouldn’t be able to cover everything
even if I kept talking for days.
So I will stop here.
All in all, with the latest cultural genocide
in Inner or Southern Mongolian, I hope people
can see one more time that the CCP is the
real enemy of mankind.
Chinese, Tibetans, Mongolians, Uighurs, and
many other ethnic groups are all victims of
the CCP; and mankind should join forces to
stop it before it can take more cultures and
human beings to destruction.
That’s all for today.
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