Presentation: How can we be critical thinkers as our school demands when we live in China?

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Narrator: There is a little girl who lives happily everyday without a single worry.

Maggie: "Mum said I'll be a good girl if and only if I listen to her words"

Christina: "What! How amusing! How can we imagine a good girl who just obeys others' opinions without any doubt?"

M: "My teacher said TaiWan is part of China and the Japanese were brutal."

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C: Hey guys, look! This kid has been totally brainwashed!!!

Unfortunately this Maggie's childhood.

M: Hey watch it! What r u talking about? Brainwash?

C:Oh. Dear me. Maggie, how can you grow up so rapidly?

M: How can you say brainwash in China? U'll be arrested. And half the people here are from communist states.

So you mean they are all brainwashed?

C:Okay, chill. So now what's your point of view on this issue?

Powerpoint Argument (5mins)

-Human Science

-History

-Ethics

-Arts

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Narrator: I see in the Universe so many forms of order, laws, systems and balances that our finite, frail intelligence measures only a small portion of the cosmic intelligence.

So I believe in God not as the vengeful power in the skies, but the creative vitality of nature's life, mind, order and justice. Still, I do not understand God, just like a droplet trying to understand the sea.

Well let's what these two gods are doing

(Pointing a world map)

M: look at north America what is G.W.Bush talking about

C: I got it! In order to be elected, he is brainwashing people by all possible means.

M:Let's turn to East Asia. You see those people bragging about their Egyptian culture all the time.

C: Oh don't mention that. I guess now there's no critical thinkers in China and North Korea.

M:Well Maybe the only few...