Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly

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Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly - Lemmy.World

Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”. Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it.  Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on “patriotic” education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy movement.  Officials said students’ voices at the Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Church Primary School were “soft and weak” and “should be strengthened”. At Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Secondary School, teachers were told to “help students develop the habit of singing the national anthem loudly in unison”.

Shit like this is why the kneeling protests in the states never bothered me. I’m proud to live in a country with freedom of expression. This kind of forced nationalism is a cancer
Don’t American school kids all have to like salute their flag and pledge themselves or some shit each morning?

Lmao @ the Americans getting all uncomfortable trying to weasel out of this

Yeah bullshit it’s “not mandatory,” how can you have such a basic denial of reality?

Totally optional, that’s why every time some kid understands and abstains, the teachers and other students bully them mercilessly, give them detention, suspension, expulsion, and it makes national news whenever someone actually tries.

I bet joining the NSDAP was fucking optional too, don’t try to deny your christofascism that everyone just accepts because somehow it’s better when America does it

Idk, I didn’t stand for the pledge and they didn’t disappear me into a white van or exile me to Cuba 🤷

Maybe, and stop me if I’m going too far here, maybe you weren’t aware it isn’t forced. That’s fine, now You’ve been handed a personal account of the opposite to be true in sure you will reassess you stance 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣