Sarah Paine
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Impressive.
Tell me something that China has that no one can duplicate except for crazy stuff.
Oh, well, Hitler's just trying to annihilate people.
So he didn't care what they're gonna tell him.
He's just gonna kill them all.
So that's just a complete, he's into destroying every last Jew there is, right?
Plus gypsies and some other people.
So that's a separate thing.
China has a long tradition of education.
I mean, what's Confucianism about?
It's the scholars at the top, right?
In Japan, it's the general, the shoguns at the top.
In China, the soldiers at the bottom of the social pyramid.
And it's all about educating people.
And then the entire imperial system, how did you get mobility?
And there was actually a way to mobility is take the imperial exams.
And if you pass them and do well...
you're off and running.
And there's also a tradition of re-educating people.
You could shoot everybody, you could, but that's not the Chinese tradition.