Summary: Red Scarf Girl
It is time to blog again! This nine week is close to wrapping up, and the midterms are approaching swiftly. Since the past weekend was a four-day weekend, I had more time to read, and I also got more time to sleep as well. I read more than usual this past two weeks because I finished American Lightning last week and started a new book which I finished this week. I think I have read a total of about 400 pages, but most of it was from my new book, Red Scarf Girl.
In my newest book, Red Scarf Girl, by Ji-Li Jiang, it retells the personal story of the author when she was a young child during the Cultural Revolution. If you don't know what the Cultural Revolution was, it was an upheaval that overtook China from 1966 to 1976. Mao Zedong, the chairman …show more content…
Religion has negatively been associated with brainwashing, most prevalent in the Islamic world. In this article, it talks about how people get strongly influenced to the point they are willing to join the terrorist group, ISIS. Most of these people that follow in such appalling acts are greatly deceived, making them be easy targets of manipulation. Even when a person is highly educated or well-informed, they are still subjected to control because they're " given enough information to formulate a fantasy." By believing in with limited information, people will follow others to find such enlightenment or a way of life. Unlike Ji-Li, who had little knowledge of what the outside world was other than Communist China, the idea of her changing her attitude towards China if she had that knowledge would be unlikely because China is her home which she values more than anything. The article continues to state that the people who are indoctrinated are "essentially people who want to improve themselves, or want to make the world a better place, in one way or another." People become who they are and what they choose to believe is determined by their surrounds as that is what shapes their character, but if they are engulfed by only lies, it is hard to change their stoned mindset, making them into a slave of
In my newest book, Red Scarf Girl, by Ji-Li Jiang, it retells the personal story of the author when she was a young child during the Cultural Revolution. If you don't know what the Cultural Revolution was, it was an upheaval that overtook China from 1966 to 1976. Mao Zedong, the chairman …show more content…
Religion has negatively been associated with brainwashing, most prevalent in the Islamic world. In this article, it talks about how people get strongly influenced to the point they are willing to join the terrorist group, ISIS. Most of these people that follow in such appalling acts are greatly deceived, making them be easy targets of manipulation. Even when a person is highly educated or well-informed, they are still subjected to control because they're " given enough information to formulate a fantasy." By believing in with limited information, people will follow others to find such enlightenment or a way of life. Unlike Ji-Li, who had little knowledge of what the outside world was other than Communist China, the idea of her changing her attitude towards China if she had that knowledge would be unlikely because China is her home which she values more than anything. The article continues to state that the people who are indoctrinated are "essentially people who want to improve themselves, or want to make the world a better place, in one way or another." People become who they are and what they choose to believe is determined by their surrounds as that is what shapes their character, but if they are engulfed by only lies, it is hard to change their stoned mindset, making them into a slave of