What are the political correctness of the United States?

Trump won the election recently and will become the next president of the United States. One of his amazing campaign arguments is to attack the politically correct public opinion and the corresponding social practice in American society. For a time, "political correctness" became a hot topic.

Politically correct public opinion has been formed in China society, and is quietly maturing. For China people, political correctness is a rather chaotic new thing and concept that comes with modernization, whether you like it or not.

What I want to say is that political correctness is a necessary public opinion and social practice to maintain the normal operation of a modern society. Even Trump, who attacked political correctness in the election campaign, cannot violate it after becoming the president of the United States. With the modernization of China society, politically correct public opinion and practice have entered the lives of China people. So, what is political correctness; Why political correctness is the characteristic of modern society; Why the management of modern society can't be separated from political correctness is exactly the problem to be discussed in this paper.

The following article was written ten years ago, and now it seems that it is not out of date. Of course, I added it appropriately-has my understanding deepened?

An analysis of American social and political correctness

The main points of this paper are:

* Political correctness should be born from the luck (need) of modern market economy;

* Political correctness is a self-regulating immune function of the huge and complex system of modern capitalist market economy and society.

Eat and live with the American people, that is, after a few years of in-depth life, you can feel and appreciate the rather strange and seemingly contradictory social phenomenon of "political correctness" I think western European countries also have this kind of political correctness, but I'm not familiar with it. Moreover, I feel that this kind of politically correct public opinion is gradually emerging in China.

Political correctness is not stipulated by law or government. Political correctness is a powerful and irresistible public opinion that all social citizens consciously (most of them are more or less forced) to abide by, or at least consciously do not violate. Political correctness can be said to be a contract and tacit understanding between all citizens in American society from top to bottom, from billionaires, presidents, parliamentarians, politicians to ordinary people. American mainstream media must abide by the principle of political correctness; Politicians and all those who intend to go into politics know that any political correctness in words and deeds is absolute political suicide; All kinds of advertising activities of merchants to promote goods must be politically correct; In schools, government agencies, companies, shops, banks, entertainment places and other public places, people must consciously pay attention to maintaining the political correctness of their words and deeds.

Political correctness is different from right-wing political correctness and left-wing political correctness. The correctness of right-wing politics is the normal public opinion of the capitalist society we are familiar with, such as not criticizing the private ownership of personal property, loving the national interests of the United States, not questioning the existence of Christian God, and atheists being obsessed with the devil. There is no doubt that the political correctness of the right wing is completely in line with the national interests of the United States from the surface to the essence. The political correctness of the right wing directly violates the principles of independent thinking and liberal democracy, which are the symbols of modern capitalist market economy and society, but this is not what I want to discuss in this paper.

In the United States, when people say political correctness, they don't mean political correctness of the right wing, but political correctness of the left wing. What I want to discuss is this puzzling and extremely interesting public opinion with strong left-wing political correctness in American society. On the surface, this left-wing political correctness is contrary to the basic principles of a free competitive capitalist society, but in essence it is very effective in serving the modern capitalist market economy of the United States and the overall national interests of the United States. The political correctness mentioned below refers to the political correctness of this left wing.

The political correctness of the left wing has become a powerful public opinion, which is a unique phenomenon or a fundamental feature of modern society. Before discussing the problem, the definitions of these two important concepts need to be particularly clear.

First of all, what is modern society? Modern society is a modern capitalist market economy society. The survival and development of modern capitalist market economy fundamentally depends on the crazy consumption and purchase of the vast majority of people. There is no modern agricultural society. As for whether there is a modern socialist society, I will attach a special article at the end.

Second, the main content of political correctness is: it is impossible to openly say that people are different and people are different. As for human differences and differences based on the following categories: ability (physical or mental), skin color, nationality, gender, family background, education level and religious belief, it is not allowed to comment and talk about criticism in public. In recent years, the ultra-right forces in the United States are in power, and the right-wing conservatives take Christ God as their umbrella. Social and political correctness has gradually ruled out religious belief to a considerable extent (including whether or not to believe in religion and which religion to believe in), but it has not touched on other contents of left-wing political correctness (not fear, but unintentional). I want to analyze the reasons below).

Political correctness represents an important propaganda slogan of modern democratic society: political equality for all.

Isn't this slogan of political equality beautiful and touching? I was moved to tears and runny nose in Tonight's American. However, the political equality of all people is an attractive signboard and sheep's head erected by the modern capitalist market economy society (modern society), while the dog meat that is deliberately and carefully concealed and sold is: economic inequality is only natural and untouchable. The following details.

The correct public opinion in American politics should be said to be the African-American civil rights movement (civil rights movement) that began in the 1960s, a movement for equal rights for blacks and women. When I was a graduate student, I didn't feel this politically correct public opinion and the social pressure it caused in American society because I concentrated on the narrow scope related to my major and didn't care about going deep into American society. I really personally experienced the great pressure of public opinion on political correctness, or after I came to teach in the southern United States in the late 1980 s, I became one with the American people and had enough time to hang out and chat and think about things.

I have a strong professionalism. If I accept the promise to do something, I must try my best to do it well. After teaching for several years, I deeply feel a problem: there is a considerable gap between the level and acceptance of students. I can't give a targeted and appropriate lecture, so I can only take care of most of the cauldrons in the middle and fry them together. I have been thinking: if there is any way to properly separate students with different levels and abilities (pay attention to proper separation, combination point and combination point), and have the opportunity to teach appropriately and pertinently, the teaching effect will be greatly improved, and students with different levels and abilities will benefit a lot.

There was a meeting in the department to discuss the problems related to teaching, and the dean also attended. At the meeting, I put forward the idea of targeted teaching. I said: some students accept it quickly, while others accept it slowly. If there is a way to separate them properly at a specific time and carry out targeted teaching, students who accept quickly can learn more, and students who accept slowly can learn more solidly (I am still very measured, I didn't say that some students are smart and some students are stupid). I didn't expect the dean to speak immediately: "We can't say that students' acceptance ability is fast or slow, but we can only say that some students are better prepared and some students are not fully prepared. "So, for the first time, I was formally and solemnly warned: Never say that students have different abilities, because it is politically incorrect. I found that none of the teachers present could at least understand and sympathize with my good intentions, and of course no one agreed with my politically incorrect suggestions.

After that, I was puzzled for many years (more than ten years): it is common sense for ordinary people to prescribe the right medicine, watch dishes and cook meals according to their own situation. Doctors see doctors and mechanics repair cars, which is the fundamental principle, because to cure the dead, repairing cars can't suit the right medicine. The right medicine is to seek truth from facts, that is, to analyze specific problems and treat specific situations. This is the basic principle of scientific research, and it is also the fundamental principle of hoping to do everything effectively and successfully. Successful capitalists are extremely shrewd and realistic. But why is this scientific principle of seeking truth from facts unnecessary, inapplicable, inapplicable and unable to be brought into play when it comes to educating students in the classroom?

According to my idea of seeking truth from facts and finding the right medicine, at least there should be education experts and graduate students of university education department to study how to find the right medicine: classify people's different learning ability, acceptance ability and comprehension ability reasonably, and then seriously discuss and study how to carry out targeted teaching in the face of these different types of abilities. This is a knowledge of strategy and methodology. Just like the advertising major selling goods, people try their best to study the different psychological, aesthetic and enjoyment characteristics of people of different ages, genders and cultural backgrounds, and make targeted advertisements on this basis.

My idea should be said to be very scientific and pragmatic. In the American capitalist society where science is advanced and developed, and I especially like to pay attention to practical results, I have never heard the views and opinions of educational experts or psychologists on this kind of targeted teaching (excluding special teaching for deaf-mutes and people with abnormal brain development). On the contrary, it is indiscriminate and ineffective: everyone is Einstein. This makes no logical sense. Hum, is this really interesting and intriguing? (