Just as no one in China cares about what the U.S. says about Chinese human rights' problems, no one in the U.S. cares about what the Chinese say about U.S. human rights' problems. Well, that's not true as the U.S. and Chinese care enough to issue their own reports. Here is a summary of the China report on the U.S. and here is the whole report.
Actually, both countries could learn something from both reports.
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I agree with Jim that the most important point is to recognize legitimate problems no matter the critic however...
What makes America great is not that we don't screw up time after time with human rights, we are not unique, but as Sullivan writes after getting his green card.
"America remains the great dream, the great promise. For all its dysfunction, it remains an ideal, a place where the restlessness of the human mind and soul comes to rest in a place it constantly reinvents and forever re-imagines."
America with all its faults at continues to stumble through the experiment of democracy.
While we often take many steps backwards we always struggle forward and tend to recognize problems. For example, America allows the Westboro Church, one of the most vile groups in the world freedom to express themselves while China, 20 years after the fact, has maintenance week closing servers hosting any of the Tiananmen Square anniversary.
That report was also poorly written, just a hog pog of google search results,
"93 percent of children have experienced at least one traumatic experience, including sexual abuse and neglect"
Also, the rant at the end about pornography was a little weird.
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