Comparison of Civil Rights Movement of Us and China

In China, the civil rights movement was initiated by several movements such as the Weiquan movement and the Falun Dafa Religion who arrived in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. These protestors sat at the square until police fled them away. Others publicly proclaimed their relations and allegiance to the group and were taken away. They publicly offered themselves as sacrificial lambs to the Chinese justice system as opposed to submitting to the demands of the system (Pei, 2010). This movement used a non-violent approach as opposed to other previous movements. This is not the case for China. In China, the public is not allowed to view or attend an execution. This includes the family members. Execution is also practiced for minor crimes such as drug trafficking and white collar crimes such as embezzlement of public funds and tax fraud.

The culprit may be executed through shooting. There are also a limited number of political parties with the USA has only two, the Republican and the Democrats. Citizens can pick any of the two based on their ideologies and preferences. The elections are held by a private body. China has one party which is the CPC. China differs from the USA in that the CPC monopolizes the elections in China. Organizations were set up to protect citizens from discrimination based on their sexual identity. An Intersex civil society organization was set up to protect intersex people from discrimination, violence and medical cosmetic interventions without consent. During the Cultural Revolution in China that took place from 1966 to1976, all religious practices were discouraged and persecuted by the then chairman Mao Zedong and his allies.

Many religious arenas were destroyed or looted. From then there have been numerous attempts to reconstruct, repair, and protect cultural and historic religious sites. He left the Black Muslims and established his own religious organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity. China differs from the USA in the aspect that even after gaining religious freedom, there are still restrictions as opposed to the American system where it is free. More so the Pope in China was viewed as a foreign power and allegiance to him was viewed as a threat. In the mid-twentieth century, the USA had already expanded its jurisdictions westwards. As a result, more rules and rights came up not only for intersexual concerns but also land rights. Citizens are entitled to private property too.

While Americans focused more on women and land rights, the Chinese strategized on relational land ownership to bring perfect social interactions. In America, laws were changed to absolute ownership of land; in China properties rights were (are) relational so as to define stakeholders' rights. However, in both countries, the property and land rights resulted in economic, social and political revolution. In America, women were empowered as they focused on equality in inheritance. Basically, divorce and custody rights favored men. The married women had no voice in the eyes of the law. They were also banned from joining top professions such as medicine and law. The Women Rights Movement was made so as to protect the American women from these troubles. This led to the Equal Amendment was amended and the women gained rights equal to that of men in 1998.

An example of these lawsuits includes the NAACP vs Claiborne Hardware that took place in 1982. In both of these cases, there was an attempt to stop or halt the freedom of speech by the ruling government as it seemed as a threat. Additionally, the war for this right took place in courts. However, for China, the government still kept scrutiny of the people’s speech and expressions and this happens up to date. For the USA, the citizens are allowed to air their views even if it damages the reputation of the government. Routledge, 2008. Carey, Allison C.  On the margins of citizenship: Intellectual disability and civil rights in twentieth-century America. Temple University Press, 2009. Dudziak, Mary L. "Rights and resistance: The changing contexts of the dissident movement.