There is growing outrage among the Chinese public over racist pornographic pictures in school textbooks. People expressed their displeasure with the state-owned publisher, saying their children’s books used images and figures that were obscene and racist. On the other hand, the Chinese government has ordered an inquiry on the matter by ordering the removal of the pictures showing a sharp attitude.
According to a Bloomberg report, China’s Ministry of Education has ordered the publisher to replace the illustrations in its primary school textbooks. The People’s Education Press asked the publisher to convert the publications. A special working group has been constituted for this. The best designers are collaborating on it. They will work to create alternative images to remove such pictures. This group will do its work on the advice of parents and school teachers. In this, care will be taken that children should be educated according to Chinese civilization.
People’s Education Press, while investigating the matter, has asked the publishers to work towards providing quality education to the children. The course material should be prepared keeping in mind the Chinese culture. On the other hand, the publisher, who was targeted by the public, expressed regret and said that he was deeply saddened to publish such pictures on mathematics books. He says that in future there should be no such controversy, he will see it seriously.
The people of China say that the pictures published on the books were racist. Some had objectionable pictures of boys. Users vented outrage on China’s Twitter-like social media outlet Weibo. It was one of the top trending items on Weibo last week. The hashtag related to the issue has garnered over several million views. This has also been commented on. As of last Friday, this hashtag had been viewed more than 2.2 billion times. One user said that such people are entering our education system at the behest of American. He said that they need to be stopped immediately.