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** Centuries earlier, [[The Book of Lord Shang|the first Chinese Emperor]] also ordered the destruction of all works that did not pertain to practical life. He preserved the copies of those works inside his palace. Unfortunately, a rebel leader decided to [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|set the palace on fire]].

** After the Cultural Revolution ended and China began opening itself to the world, they found out that many people were interested in classical Chinese art and culture. The government ignores the fact that many of the remaining artisans were essentially committing "treason" for decades with their hidden knowledge.

* The USSR didn't just try to wipe out religion entirely, they smeared churches with faeces, knocked down most of them down (including some very beautiful cathedrals), instituted a school system that forced atheism and truckloads of anti-religious propaganda on children, banned the teaching of religion and did everything in their power to prevent people going to church. Believers were harassed, many were rounded up, particularly priests. Very many were imprisoned, 'vanished', assassinated, intimidated, locked in mental hospitals, and forcibly converted to atheism. [[wikipedia:Propaganda in the Soviet Union#Anti-religious|Vicious and unpleasant]] [~~http~~://~~www~~.soviethistory.org/index.php?page=subject&show=images&SubjectID=1924antireligion&Year=1924&navi=byYear propaganda posters] were pasted across the country - and that isn't even the half of what went on. Bear in mind that it is now pretty-much confirmed that [http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=36178 the attempted assassination of Pope John-Paul II was organised by the KGB]....

* The USSR didn't just try to wipe out religion entirely, they smeared churches with faeces, knocked down most of them down (including some very beautiful cathedrals), instituted a school system that forced atheism and truckloads of anti-religious propaganda on children, banned the teaching of religion and did everything in their power to prevent people going to church. Believers were harassed, many were rounded up, particularly priests. Very many were imprisoned, 'vanished', assassinated, intimidated, locked in mental hospitals, and forcibly converted to atheism. [[wikipedia:Propaganda in the Soviet Union#Anti-religious|Vicious and unpleasant]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120513015224/http://soviethistory.org/index.php?page=subject&show=images&SubjectID=1924antireligion&Year=1924&navi=byYear propaganda posters] were pasted across the country - and that isn't even the half of what went on. Bear in mind that it is now pretty-much confirmed that [http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=36178 the attempted assassination of Pope John-Paul II was organised by the KGB]....

** Meanwhile in America, the first [[Red Scare]] was coming to a [[wikipedia:First Red Scare#Deportations|head]], with the state deporting or arresting Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Union members, Wobblies, and a host of other leftists, under the guise of protecting the American and Christian way. This culminated in sending over 200 Anarchists and Communists on a ship with an armed guard off to Finland and Russia. Not surprisingly, the stock markets crashed a decade later.

* The Khmer Rouge in [[Cambodia]] killed a lot of people for many things, like speaking a European language, or, say, dancing. It is rumored that by the end of their four-year reign, only three people in the country knew how to dance the complex, stylized form of ballet derived from the Khmer empire.

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{{quote|'''Q:''' Why are Protestants opposed to shagging while standing up?

'''A:''' For fear that it might lead to dancing! }}

** [http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92559/suspended-for-dancing One high school suspended a student for dancing...] ''[http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92559/suspended-for-dancing at another school]''.

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090518031955/http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92559/suspended-for-dancing One high school suspended a student for dancing...] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090518031955/http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92559/suspended-for-dancing at another school]''.

** There are also some insane regulations governing hair length and style, not a few of which are implicitly racist—applying language like "distracting" or "political" to ban, say, afros or cornrows. There are schools—including public schools—where black girls in particular are essentially forced, by process of elimination, to straighten their hair. There was [http://www.racialicious.com/2008/07/28/denied-kindergarten-for-being-native/ a case] where an Apache boy was denied entrance to a ''kindergarten'' for having his hair long—and this was a school that was willing to make exceptions on "proven moral grounds," for which Apache tradition apparently doesn't qualify. ''And'' there are schools where, in addition to boys' not being allowed to have long hair, ''girls aren't allowed to have theirs too short''.

** There are also some insane regulations governing hair length and style, not a few of which are implicitly racist—applying language like "distracting" or "political" to ban, say, afros or cornrows. There are schools—including public schools—where black girls in particular are essentially forced, by process of elimination, to straighten their hair. There was [https://web.archive.org/web/20130824034526/http://www.racialicious.com/2008/07/28/denied-kindergarten-for-being-native/ a case] where an Apache boy was denied entrance to a ''kindergarten'' for having his hair long—and this was a school that was willing to make exceptions on "proven moral grounds," for which Apache tradition apparently doesn't qualify. ''And'' there are schools where, in addition to boys' not being allowed to have long hair, ''girls aren't allowed to have theirs too short''.

** A few of the stricter Protestant schools in the Netherlands ([[Freestate Amsterdam|there's quite a few actually]]) caught flak a few years back when not relaxing their no-pants-only-dresses-for-girls rules. This was during a particularly cold winter. And many girls came to school by bike.

* During the age of West-Indian chattel slavery, the Africans were purposefully separated from their tribes to try and prevent any sort of unity amongst them. This meant that there would be no one else around with the same culture, leading to erasure of some degree. Of course, this meant that everyone would be speaking a different language, and when added to the already foreign languages of the European planters, very little would be understood.