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Chinese Youth to Learn Manners From Games

Helping old ladies cross the road may not sound like a particularly exciting computer game, but the Chinese Government is confident that this is the best way to teach their youth good manners. Yahoo News reports that succeeding in the online game ‘Learning from Comrade Lei Feng’ depends on politeness and thrift, and rewards for good behavour include a chance of seeing Chairman Mao. Comrade Lei Fung himself is a legendary - and possibly fictious - solider from the 1960s, who apparently impressed China’s communist rulers with his good deeds, and is the Government’s response to combatting the declining standards of behaviour in the nation’s youth.

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