Tiannamen Square and Mao

The people here in China really love Mao, as Jeremy explains, Mao helped modernize China to the superpower that it is today resulting in making the country literate and bringing women into the work force. Sure he ended up killing a couple million in the process, buts 1.5 million in a land with billions of people?!

With that said, Tiannamen Square isa place filled with opposites and contradictions. If the stones of that square could talk, they would let out screams of pain and anguish, and cries of rejoicing and cheer, and hours of militant training and ceremonies and gatheriengs filled with hope and trepidation. And now it is swarmed with tourists and people selling postcards, candy, and wanting to take your picture for a price. The indescribable contradictions and opposites were a bit much for my empathetic body to absorb. So yes, I came, I saw, I took pictures, but I won’te be coming back anytime soon.