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Citation Information
CHAPTER XXI
THE CHINESE STUDENT 1
FORMERLY I considered the want of discipline and
unnecessary number of soldiers was China's chief
trouble ; I have now come to the conclusion that
the students are an even greater evil, certainly from
the point of view of the foreigner.
The student, usually a wretched half-baked
creature who argues like a small child without fear
of correction, has no solid basis of education to
help him. He picks up a smattering of foreign
learning, which enables him to pose without
difficulty as a superior being among his own people,
who therefore fear him, whilst before the foreigner
he realises his inferiority, causing him a loss of face
and turning him to anti-foreign feelings at heart.
If the students were under a strong foreigner,
not afraid of them, the foreign trained student in
China would, no doubt, benefit, but, when he is
under weak foreigners, afraid to stand up to him
in a fight to a finish, the student gets the upper
hand and the prestige of the foreigner sinks. He
judges that all foreigners are weak in the same
way, and the more this feeling takes root, the
more anti - foreign and dangerous he becomes.
1 Written by General Pereira in 1923.
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