Those asking what I said from China,
go and live there yourself. You'll likely note the conform or get outta here pressure. Not going to Japan or Korea, why should they have done that? China itself has been a collection of several states warring against each other, so any attempt to overextend ones military force results in the neighboring state grabbing the formed vacuum. Unified, it's the Central State between the Earth and Heaven right there after all - and in reality has currently its hands full dealing with the internal pressures that are completely on a different scale compared to typical Western powers. Chinese perspective on China and expansion is something you'll have to realize yourself, and is radically different from Western cultures. They don't need to, and if they can affect or subvert things by other means opposed to projecting force, they'll take the other means.
Meanwhile, those asking whether there is bias in the media, check the current EU
non-binding report on learning the EU on the school levels. The meat of this stuff is under the topic "Role of the member states". Interpreted in Finnish mindset, points 41, 43 and 44 seem specifically worrisome. It is still as if the EU does not realize that the immigrants themselves should be willing to integrate - not all of that is done by the member states. So I'd call this extending the EU brainwashing from the nowadays media to the school levels in future. Remains to be seen whether the teachers comply, though...
It's astonishing how little cultural differences are generally recognized even between the Western EU and Eastern EU states, and the interesting part here which I also demonstrated
in practicum in this forum is the difference between the expressions. If you paid attention with a critical mind, the Eastern Europeans were not offended and responded in a completely different manner which was missed completely by Westerners (because you'd need to know the more frequent usage of dysphenisms) and likely interpreted as "they're all racists!" The result is actually nothing new to me, and it's not the first time I've done this - thank you EU for letting me try these things before in the dinner tables (with me getting labelled as the Northern Barbarian in the beginning, but ending up as the smartest and coolest dude of the bunch). And I confess I've been an evil person with the Chinese as well, giving them an impossible task and asking them to solve it in a short time, forcing them to say "I can't" or "No" for an important cultural lesson of the differences between the host country and the country of origin as they discover the "No" was the factually correct and expected answer all along. This is integration in the Finnish terms. Welcome.
I suspect that the EU is too late reacting to the refugee crisis, this will likely end with the Schengen treaty breaking apart this summer. Additionally, this kind of teaching will not be received well here at the moment at least as the EU time has not been particularly rosy to say the least, with most of the bad things that the critical were saying have happened, while few of the positive things predicted having actually happened. I think we'll see a similar pattern once again with the refugees.
And what it comes to more strict response from Eastern Europeans with respect to immigration, you'll really have to understand these countries have seen mass immigration before, and realized the difference between moderate muslim refugees and current refugees before the EU did. Because of the proximity of Russia, these countries also have to pull an extra duty of guarding themselves, and it is the extend of this guarding which is not understood by the Western EU states. The Nordic countries are somewhat different as well, the main reason for people getting angry here is the abuse of the social security provided to the refugees with little critical insight. No-one has been able to show any kind of advantage for letting illiterate people in to a high-tech profiled country to begin with, and people are asking what's the return of investment of their taxes already on the
domestic terms. But hey, Finland has also got our first suicide bomber, so how's that for the cultural enrichment? Looking for more on Finnish take on terrorism, look no further than
this stand up routine.
Interesting statistics have also popped up. The Finnish police says they are monitoring about 300 persons of the 30 000 refugees that arrived here (22 000 remain), while Europol is saying they are monitoring roughly 5 000 persons. The ratio doesn't match up, assuming similar distribution of extremists, Europol should be monitoring +12 000 persons as there were 1.2 million asylum seekers in 2015. Or then the Finnish police is too eager to react (historically though they are not). Or then our refugees are different from Central European. Which could be the case. Central Europeans report lots of Syrians, while we haven't seen many here.