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American School Buses vs. Chinese Children Saluting Cars

127 comments by Fauna on Monday, August 3, 2009

From Mop:

America’s elementary and middle schools all have specialized vehicles for transporting students (school bus). This kind of vehicle is painted yellow, and has an automatic stop sign on the side of the driver’s seat (stop arm). This kind of red octagon sign only has one word on it, “stop”, no different from the stop sign at any intersection, with the only difference being that it can be opened and closed, like an elephant’s ears. The sign is normally closed along the body of the school bus, but when students are getting on or off the bus, the driver will open it.

During this time, no matter whether there are cars in front, behind, left, or right, including police cars, all must stop, even the president’s ride is not an exception. When the bus driver believes the students are safe, has closed the sign, only then are other cars allowed to continue drive. If the bus does not have a sign installed, then the driver must get off the bus and hold up the sign, forbidding all cars to pass. This is to protect the country’s next generation, a right given to the school bus by the law.

When I first went to America, I did not understand the rules, and once wanted to slowly drive around the school bus, but an American screamed and yelled at me, startling me a lot.

No matter whether it is bustling city, or a deserted countryside, every time I see a yellow school bus slowly come to a stop, open up its red ear, and children excitedly going to and getting off school, I think of those children who raise their hands to salute luxury cars [of officials] in China and feel heavy and depressed.

A while ago, I saw the rules for several areas in China’s Guizhou, etc. provinces that students must salute when they encounter luxury cars on the road, which I thought were completely absurd and ridiculous and I felt bad for the children.

This bunch of corrupt officials, who have sucked the blood and flesh of the people, who use the blood, sweat, and money of the ordinary common people to purchase luxury cars in order to show off their power and prestige, actually tell students to salute their luxury cars. Why not salute trucks? Why not salute horse carriages? Why not three-wheeled vehicles/pedicabs? Because these officials never ride in these vehicles, because these bunch of moths are not content with acting like tyrants on the heads of the ordinary people and can actually think of this kind of awful idea to impress upon children.

What is the significance of saluting? Respect. Citizens salute the national flag, students salute teachers, but why must we salute officials, do they deserve respect? This is brainwashing little children, this is misleading the sense of values of children whose intelligence have not yet matured, this is the destruction of young minds.

Children are the future of the country, the people’s hopes. Whether a country, a people can stand at the summit of the world is determined by how the next generation is educated and cultivated, determined by what kind of material and mental environment. If it is all like the Xinjiang blaze: “Everyone don’t move, allow the leaders to go first!” and the children are burned alive, what kind of future does this people have?

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