Blogger’s Note: It is well-known that poor children do not travel and have fewer opportunities to undergo educational experiences. Middle-class and well-off children, by contrast, are subjected to positive developmental experience even before they leave the womb. Travelling broadens and deepens the mind. Someone from a poor backgrounds knows straightaway what it is like to encounter other children from more affluent backgrounds. This is why, in the past (but not today), the left-wing Local Councils used to pay for poor families and their children to go on modest holidays around the UK – or even to Spain, as a means of breaking-up the narrow conditioning of their youth. Of course, the right-wing press attacked this policy, referring to it as a waste of money and the rewarding of poverty and laziness, etc. Even the USSR would routinely shift groups of children from power regions to richer regions for educational holidays – as well as exploring the countryside, etc. The idea is that the new experiences will inspire the children to make changes where they live, and transform their usual living space for the better. This is the essence of Socialist “Internationalism” – which is not the same as the permanent mass migration you see practiced in “Multiculturalism” (the poor moving en masse to better-off areas out of desperation) – which serves predatory capitalism with the providing of cheap labour. ACW (5.8.2025)
Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2025-08-05
Patimanhan Parihat watches a national flag-raising ceremony at Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 31, 2025. She stood on tiptoe, her gaze piercing through the crowd as she watched the slowly rising China’s national flag. Tears of excitement streamed down her cheeks. After more than 4,000 kilometres of travel from a small town near the Taklimakan Desert to Tian’anmen Square in the capital of China, the young girl witnessed the solemn scene described in her textbooks for the first time of her life. Ten-year-old Patimanhan is a primary school student from Qira County of Xinjiang. She was chosen to participate in an 11-day public welfare summer camp which brings together 32 outstanding Xinjiang youths to embark on a summer vacation trip. (Photo by Zhang Limin/Xinhua)
Patimanhan Parihat (3rd L) poses for photos before taking a train to Urumqi at Hotan Railway Station in Hotan, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 25, 2025.
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