Recently, a blog post on the mainland showing off privileges went viral, with the phrase “privileged environment cultivates kindness” sparking outrage. The article also revealed that the international class of Beijing Tsinghua Affiliated High School recruits dual nationality students and goes straight to Tsinghua University, etc., which the school has scrambled to deny.
The gate of Tsinghua University. (LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images)
The blogger claimed in this short article showing off privilege that he knew a girl in the international class of Tsinghua Affiliated High School, which requires dual nationality students to enter and go directly to Tsinghua University instead of taking the college entrance exam.
The blog post also claimed that the girl did not want to go to Tsinghua University and was debating whether to take the college entrance exam to try to go to the Central Academy of Drama.
The blog ends by bragging that because of the privilege of not having to compete, “we learn to be kind in a privileged environment,” and accusing people without privileges of making statements “drenched in jealousy” that “really make me sick. “It really makes me sick.
The controversial blog post showing off privilege. (Screenshot)
The article’s flaunting of privileges, especially the phrase “I learned to be kind in a privileged environment,” provoked the anger of Chinese netizens. Some netizens ridiculed, “If I had everything I wanted, I would be ‘kinder’ than you. Other netizens cited examples of children of the powerful and wealthy hitting people with luxury cars in the street and raping and killing young girls and still getting away with it, saying that they only see cold-bloodedness and arrogance towards the lower strata of society and cannot see any “kindness” in them.
The blog post is going viral, and the privileges of the international classes of Tsinghua High School, which are revealed, are also attracting more and more attention.
The company’s staff explained to the media on May 19 that the so-called “dual nationality” is not legal, there is no “dual nationality” requirement for school admissions, and international class students “do not exist to go straight to Tsinghua. The school has no “dual nationality” requirement for admissions, and students in international classes “do not have direct access to Tsinghua. The staff of Tsinghua University’s domestic admissions office also claimed that “there is no direct access to Tsinghua’s program”.
The official website of the International Department of Tsinghua Affiliated High School states that the International Department only admits foreign students with non-Chinese passports, as well as permanent residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
The CCP claims that it does not recognize dual citizenship (having both Chinese and foreign citizenship). In reality, however, there are many powerful Communist Party members and their family members who have foreign nationality, and it is doubtful whether the above rule applies to powerful people or whether they are serious about enforcing it.
In addition, Peking University announced last year that all written exams for foreign students would be abolished and only interviews would be required. At the time, public opinion questioned whether the rule “opened the door” for the children of powerful people who had acquired foreign citizenship.
As early as 2017, Tsinghua University abolished written exams for international students, replacing them with an “application-review” system, according to party media outlet Xinhua. And since at least 2014, Peking University has exempted some “qualified” international students from written exams.
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