Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"We are the flower and future of our country"

A student's essay on discrimination:

Discrimination has existed from our life comes. No matter human being or animal, there is always discrimination. But discrimination by human beings is more serious. In ancient times, when our country was strong and had deep influence, we couldn't be discriminated. We were full of pride and other envied us. Then, when we were invaded by Japan and other countries, the more we experienced discrimination or were looked down upon. They called our Chinese "the patient of East Asia" and thought our "yellow skinned people" is inferior to "the white skinned people." This is race discrimination.

What's more, we had the glamorous and colorful culture in the past. We invented the compass, the ways to create paper and other two inventions. Then the western countries would learn from us. But when we are poor or weak, the other countries treated our culture as nothing.

So, to be the college students of China, we are the flower and future of our country. We must study harder and harder to calculate the experience and knowledge to make our country stronger. Just like in the past or even better. Only by building ourselves better, we can get rid of the discrimination.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a very powerful line, better than what most English-speaking students in the US could write, I think.

Kacie said...

yeah i think so too! and i think her understanding of discrimination is pretty neat :P

Kacie said...

Oh FML.
Just read another essay with the exact same line in it. Did some Google investigative work and found out that in his Little Red Book, Mao has a chapter on the youth, in which he compares them to flowers blooming in the morning sun. fff