why don't we ask or speak?

Having had classes for more than one week, we Chinese students seldomly say anything about during the course although we make up the majority of the student amount.

Actually this is not a new phenomenon all over the world.  Maybe some areticles have already criticised on the lack of our Chinese education. We do not use to doubts on anything. I guess it is really easy to doubt inside rather than express in front of people. My explaination for this is the fact that we are not born in a place free to report, not only in term of news but also in daily life, which I believe is the root reason. Because in my personal experience-I am not telling lies-I was told not to mention some politically sensitive things by my parents. Many foreigners wonder why you are afraid. If all of you fight for the freedom of expression, you Chinese people may have already got it.

But aren't Chinese people so stupid that they can not save themselves?

Back to 2 years ago, Gao Yaojie, who is the first person reveal the aids in a small country in Henan, was once  under house arrest. Her 45-year-old son was forced to knee in front of her. The purpose is to "forbidden" her, in one way or another, from receiving a NGO prize given by Hilary for her efforts on human rights and benefits. Her book was also banned to publish in Mainland.

Back to some journalists like Qin Benli, Zhang Weijian etc. Their article expressed theri concerns about the society and all emotion were from the bottom love of hear for the country. Ironically they are definitely treated unfair and their books became the banned ones. Liu Binyan, who had so much passion to the country,sadly died in America never had a chance to be back becasuse his visa was cancelled during his visit to an America University.

And so on.

My Chinese classmate, I don't mean all of them, are too naive to receive all the message from China media only. They are never told like these people's true story. However I won't take the Western's point of view that Chinese people are under authoritarian controll. The thing is the government is too afraid to make any mistake. The more freedom they give, the more chaos the country will be. To some extent it is true. With such a huge population, if China sneezes, the whole world will shake.

Never jump into the inclination that Chinese is lack of human rights. In the context of real China we are trying to change this satuation. But now the majority suffered from the culture revolution thirty years ago, suffered from Tian'anmen Event twenty years ago. How dare they live withou that kind of nightmare memory? How dare they run the risk of their one precious child senting into prison? China is China.

No wonder that we don't ask or speak during classes. It is because we do not want to scare the world.