Farewell My Concubine

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People within western cultures view many Asian countries, especially China and Japan, as having a much more strict way of educating their children than you would see in the west and many other places in the world. This view mainly comes from the increased amount of time in class and time where you’re expected to or need to study to be able to continue on to the next level of school, and things like the incredibly stressed importance of some kind of big test that influences the rest of your life. Through the readings and the movies we’ve watched a possible reaction to people that have gone or are going through this kind of educational system is dissatisfaction. This is shown from factors like strain between family, friends, and classmates or the other groups of people that surround a person, a desire to quit or otherwise not continue, and a desire for change.
Japan’s education system is based almost entirely around taking tests. There are two tests that are incredibly important
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To train them to become actors fit to act in the Beijing Opera, there are two instructors are working these children to the bone for them to memorize their choreography and lines and punishing them heavily if they make even a slight mistake. This form of teaching was obviously effective as the two main characters (names) were able to become incredibly famous and successful as adults. However later on as many changes are made within China because of the cultural revolution, many traditional objects and ways of life are being done away with. This also included this incredibly harsh way of teaching. The newer generation that Xiao Si was from seems to have received a much more lenient style of teaching. However when Xiao Si takes Deiyi’s role when he refuses to go on stage he seems to be able to perform about as well as the old generation would be able

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