Let’s Look at the Bad in Every Country
Every country needs to recognize its good and bad sides.
I’m the type of person who sees the bad more than the good but it’s not necessarily a pessimistic thing to do because once the bad of something comes to my mind, I think. Thinking makes life worth living.
When I was in China as an expat teaching English for two years at a private university, I read the China Daily newspaper (a newspaper that was published in English for the purpose of foreigners to be able to follow Chinese news and for the Chinese to practice reading in English [I loved that paper]) almost every evening at the university library. This was between summer 2011–2013.
There were regularly articles about the United States accusing China of its poor human rights record detailing the injustices against the Uygur minority in Xinjiang Province (in northwest China), and the Tibetans, and the Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested in large numbers in 1999 and whom were subjected to the worst torture in prison that I have ever read about, and anyone who wrote negatively but honestly about the Chinese Communist party, and the Christians who have lost their churches due to the government having them demolished, and the more than 250 million migrant workers who are discriminated against for their socioeconomic class, who often have trouble enrolling their children…
