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Title    American Values & Chinese Students
Date    Monday September 01 2014, @05:33PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the clash-of-cultures dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/01/1512224

carguy writes:

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-sat-exam-american-values-chinese-students-20140829-story.html

From the LA Times article:

Chinese students have shown an insatiable appetite for attending U.S. colleges — last year alone, more than 235,000 were enrolled at American institutions of higher education. But now, some in China are grousing that the SAT may impose American values on its best and brightest, who in preparation for the exam might be studying the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights instead of “The Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung.”

[...]

The U.S. College Board in March announced plans to redesign the SAT to include key U.S. historical documents in one portion of the test, known as the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, by spring 2016.

“The vital issues central to these documents — freedom, justice, and human dignity among them — have motivated numerous people in the United States and around the globe,” the College Board said in a statement. But those are the exact values that the Chinese Communist Party has deemed as threatening to its rule; Chinese activists who have tried to promote such values have been silenced or jailed.

There is much more discussion in the original article.

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