#1:  “Well, it happened before I was born,” the 19-year-old said, looking down at his sneakered feet as the crowd shuffled out of the vast expanse of concrete on a balmy evening. “In any case, it’s history. Why should we dwell on the past?”

#2:  “Well, it happened before I was born. In any case, it’s history. Why should we dwell on the past?”

#3:  “If there is too much freedom, all sorts of false rumors can spread on the Internet.  It’s not easy to control such a big and diverse country as China.”

#4:  “They call us the post-1980s youth, the April youth, the Olympic torch generation or the ‘Bird’s Nest’ generation.  Our patriotism springs from a heartfelt love for the motherland, a belief in Chinese traditional culture, pride in being Chinese and confidence in China’s future.”

Hm.

Cynics would say that we have the same sort of thing going on in American politics right now.  But those would be cynics.

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