01 Sep

Class Application Warfare

Posted by kyochan

If you think affirmative action is bad, this sums up the college application process in North Korea

In North Korea birth class is the most significant criterion to select university students

How backward is this concept? Even China is dropping it (Via. Simon World)

Leaders should eliminate the ideology of class struggle and not look on the masses as an enemy when dealing with the increasing number of conflicts between officials and citizens, a party school official said…In his article, Mr Wang said cadres dealing with mass gatherings should give up the ideology of “class struggle” - the friction between members or groups from different social classes. The concept was expanded by Mao Zedong , sparked off the Cultural Revolution, and was used as a powerful tool to eliminate those whose political views contradicted the government’s…

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