The commie China take over. Destroying the 4 olds. See anything similar? Just watch.

[Theowl32]

The Four Olds are the old ways, or signs of pre-revolution China. Mao wanted them eliminated because they were reminders of who used to be in power.

The Four Olds consisted of Old Ideas, Old Customs, Old Culture, and Old Habits. These were the elements that Chairman Mao wanted to eliminate from China as a result of the Cultural Revolution.

When China underwent a Cultural Revolution, one of the important components was eliminating symbols of old China. Anything that reminded people of the old order, or symbolized the old aristocracy, was to be destroyed. Jiang’s difficulty with the Four Olds is that her family used to have money, and therefore they are a target.

Why did Mao want the Four Olds to be destroyed in Red Scarf Girl? - Homework Help - eNotes.com

Mao seduced the children and the adolescence in college. They convinced them to turn anyone in that held on to any of the "OLDS."



They are losers folks. It is getting scary people.

 

[waltky]

So at some point...

... the new generations will look at the present leaders and communist dogma...

... as the 4 olds in their quest for freedom and democracy...

... that is the natural way of things.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Four Olds are the old ways, or signs of pre-revolution China. Mao wanted them eliminated because they were reminders of who used to be in power.

The Four Olds consisted of Old Ideas, Old Customs, Old Culture, and Old Habits. These were the elements that Chairman Mao wanted to eliminate from China as a result of the Cultural Revolution.

When China underwent a Cultural Revolution, one of the important components was eliminating symbols of old China. Anything that reminded people of the old order, or symbolized the old aristocracy, was to be destroyed. Jiang’s difficulty with the Four Olds is that her family used to have money, and therefore they are a target.

Why did Mao want the Four Olds to be destroyed in Red Scarf Girl? - Homework Help - eNotes.com

Mao seduced the children and the adolescence in college. They convinced them to turn anyone in that held on to any of the "OLDS."



They are losers folks. It is getting scary people.

"The Kwan family met the Youth Brigade in their living room, which had shrunk to the size of a prison cell due to the number of shouting youth surrounding the family. They gazed at the youth in bewilderment unable to understand the evil that they had done.

“Do you repent? Do you confess to clinging to the old values?”

“Confess and seek reeducation and we will spare you!”

“You are guilty of old thought, old culture, old values…”

“You have built a lackey’s empire on the backs of the people!”

Kwan and his wife, along with their twelve-year-old son were bound and defenseless.

“You are part of the old…”

The tall leader of the cadre engages in a furious dialectic, spittle flying from his mouth.

“You are part of the old! Do you repent?”

With every line he spoke, he swung the black baton, heavy as a cricket bat.

“You will reform your decadent ways!”

“The old ways are a threat to the collective good of the people!”

“You will die if you retain your old beliefs!”

“Repent! Reject the old! Admit you have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought!”

It continued for endless minutes- until the blows the student rained down stole the life from the family. The iron-tipped baton left bloody forms at his feet as he recited the catechism the students thirstily sought to hear."
From the novel “The Stone Monkey,” by Jeffery Deaver

 

[percysunshine]

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Never trust anyone over the age of 30.

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