Are Hong Kongers suffering from Stockholm's syndrome?

@BlueVeins like the UK did?

@Shapeshifter Yes. The UK did a lot of incredibly bad things.

@BlueVeins And if it had not been for the UK the islands would just be another rock

@sunsporter1649 The British killed over 18,000 Chinese people and got innumerable Chinese nationals addicted to opium via a forced "free trade" agreement.

@BlueVeins So go nuke them

@sunsporter1649 No microwave is big enough.

@BlueVeins Well, let's assume that Hong Kong was apart of the United States and the department of education issued a directive to teach English in schools there, would that be wrong?

@Shapeshifter It would be wrong if the HK public didn't want it.

@BlueVeins And we all know only government knows what is bestest for everyone, the public be damned, right.....lol

@sunsporter1649 I mean, I'm not opposed to domestic governments forcing education reform on their own constuencies. It would just freak me out if they forced it on someone else.

@BlueVeins How about the community forcing the boards of education to set up education reform to community standards, not government standards

@sunsporter1649 The board of education is a government organization, and it's still forcing education standards upon its constituents. The only difference is really the size. And I'd agree that communities should have some wiggle room there, but we as a country do have a duty to make sure local governments aren't just completely goofing off and wasting our youth's potential and our federal government's money.

@BlueVeins Why do the people of, say, Georgia, have to conform to the same style of education of, say, Alaska, since the type of education in both areas is totally different, due to many factors, such as environment and future growth potentials

@sunsporter1649 2+2=4 no matter where you live in the country. There are different topics you might want to focus more on in different regions, but the basics stay the same.

@BlueVeins True enough, but when I pick up a history book and discover a picture of George Washington, with the one word caption "Slaveholder" I want to throw every government issued textbook into the ocean

@sunsporter1649 Has that actually happened?

@BlueVeins Not only that, but in an American history book, Abe Lincoln earned an entire paragraph, no photo, out of 425 pages.

@sunsporter1649 Okay. I guess my other question would have to be whether or not the district in particular selected it, as opposed to it being imposed by the federal or state government. Because if it was the former, that'd seem to put you in a goofy position, eh?

@BlueVeins LOL, since when has your schoolboard ever informed you of any decision regarding their education priorities?

@sunsporter1649 You could probably just ask the teacher and ask how that book was selected. That's kind of a big detail.

@BlueVeins LOL, I coached high school baseball, you can bet your bippy I asked more than one

@sunsporter1649 Well there you go

@BlueVeins Pick up some textbooks from your local secondary schools, you will be amazed at the crap they are spewing