{"id":61279,"date":"2014-12-25T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=61279"},"modified":"2014-12-25T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T21:45:04","slug":"good-to-see-china-staying-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=61279","title":{"rendered":"Good To See China Staying Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish Americans would have the same dedication to keeping their country American and that Israelis would have the same dedication to keeping their country Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think China, Japan or Korea would be improved with the importation of ten million Africans or Mexicans. I don&#8217;t think America has been improved by this level of importation of unassimilable people either.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/christmas-banned-chinese-university-says-kitsch-023358427.html\">REPORT<\/a>: BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; A university in northwestern China has banned Christmas, calling it a &#8220;kitsch&#8221; foreign celebration unbefitting of the country&#8217;s own traditions and making its students watch propaganda films instead, media said on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe state-run Beijing News said that the Modern College of Northwest University, located in Xian, had strung up banners around the campus reading &#8220;Strive to be outstanding sons and daughters of China, oppose kitsch Western holidays&#8221; and &#8220;Resist the expansion of Western culture&#8221;.<br \/>\nA student told the newspaper that they would be punished if they did not attend a mandatory three-hour screening of propaganda films, which other students said included one about Confucius, with teachers standing guard to stop people leaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish Americans would have the same dedication to keeping their country American and that Israelis would have the same dedication to keeping their country Jewish. I don&#8217;t think China, Japan or Korea would be improved with the importation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=61279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4708,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61280,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions\/61280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}