Questions for 25-75 Butch

In these pages I feel like Peter is starting to notice more and more about how the eastern world views us Western Americans. He also seems to be understanding  more how his young Chinese students think, or at least have been taught to think. Adams partner Brian uses a textbook to teach class called a "Survey of Britain and America." This book makes America seem unorganized and dangerous. There were chapters which mentioned religion but quickly refrained to the Jonestown mass suicide. You can see why this makes us look like freaks. Then in another part called "Social Problems" The book reads about sexual relations before marriage and homosexuality. Adding that since Americans are supposed to be adventurous, our sexual preference can be as well. Peter also assigns the students to write about how robin hood would go about his story in China. It was interesting because none of the students ended with robin hood getting away with it. He stole from the rich and gave to the peasants, but still was always caught or punished in some organized manner. So I feel like Peters students and China in general are really foreign to the idea of mass culture and freedom in the western world. The students are  so often restricted to anything that isn't "The right way." It seems hard to be different because it's frowned upon in their society.