Another revolution in China will not be sparked by the things Paul's source wrote about. These practices are wide spread and accepted as normal. In addition, they may have little to do with communism or the current regime. American General Joseph Stilwell was disgusted by the amount of corruption during World War II under Chiang Kai-shek.

The culture of corruption goes much further back than a century.

Why is corruption less prevalent in some cultures?

I taught at a low tier university in central China and saw some of the same behaviors Keep the Change observed. Few students were motivated to learn, and they could pass and graduate and get a job without ever needing to do so.

Interesting that you should post a Chinese proverb, as Klein's idea reminds me of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

This is on my Facebook feed too. President Obama certainly has energized the 20-somethings.

I haven't seen anyone on Facebook write anything against same-sex marriage. What can one write without alienating friends who support it? This is a consistent trend on Facebook (at least among my recently graduated friends), where liberal values are praised much more than conservative ones.

It is significant that liberals rarely ask that question about how not to alienate those who disagree with them. Dennis Prager often writes about how liberals see conservatives as bad rather than wrong. If opposing same-sex marriage is bad, why worry about alienating those who disagree?