Send spoiled elites back to kindergarten

• Source: Global Times
• [08:13 October 16 2009]
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Illustration: Liu Rui

By Chen Chenchen

The verse of "three rules of discipline and eight points for attention" for the Red Army issued by Mao Zedong and his associates in 1928, is well-known among Chinese. "Do not hit or swear at people," as one point of this doctrine, can be spoken by kindergarten children without stammering.

Therefore, one may assume that such a basic rule has no need to be lectured anymore.

Yu Fuqin, who slapped a teenage tour guide in the face, has become really famous these days – her head shots are posted everywhere online, found through "human fl esh" searches, along with her classic quotation during police inquiry, "Sir, do I look like a unreasonable person?"

From every possible perspective, she should have been a reasonable person. She looked sanguine and benign in the photo. She was well taken care of by two bodyguards, and was driven around in four extravagant cars.

More importantly, she, together with her husband, Chen Wei, both held Party and administrative posts in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which, founded in 1954 by two regimental commands of the People's Liberation Army, pays great emphasis on discipline in both speech and action.

It's hard to imagine that she slapped the teenage tour guide, who asked her to stop touching a priceless Buddhist fresco at the Mogao Grottoes, during the National Day holidays.