The upshot is that America’s — and Australia’s, and Europe’s — leading experts on China often remain silent as its regime becomes ever more repressive.
The conflict between china and the rest of the word reminds me of how mc murphey is challenging the system. But his resistance to the rules of the ward are making the conflict worse and with no end in sight it can be compared to his struggle with the big nurse
candor would endanger your colleagues here or in China.
Whenever someone speaks up against authority they will be worried about the punishment and what people think. Sometimes i the ward people are afraid to talk about their problems because of the hostile reactions of the staff and fellow patients.
who in turn fear losing their satellite campus in China — or the lucrative flow of Chinese students to their school.
Theirs a benefit in the control that china has over american tourists. Its similar to the incentives the ward has for keeping so many people locked away from society. The benefit in cuckoos nest being that these people deemed not fit for society have a place to live. But theirs no alternative.
the Communist rulers will deny them a visa.
Those who do not follow the norm are punished to a very hard extent. It remind me of how quick the head nurse was able to make mc murphey take his pills as well as everything else she makes him conform to.
When it comes to China, Americans are victims of an insidious kind of censorship that stunts the debate they hear and read in nearly invisible ways.
This quote represents the conformity and control that can be seen in the ward as well as in communist countries trying to silence free thinkers. Those in control are good at what they do and they do it quietly that's why its still going on.