Oh, that's not how I think it should be. I'm just saying that since we acknowledge that China is far from a just state, we don't expect them to have any real concept of human rights, whereas in America, a nation that claims to be just and free, when it's revealed to be nothing of the sort it leads to questions of that justice and liberty.
The only Orwell books I've read are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I liked Animal Farm, it's a good parody/sattire of Russian history up until that point, and the point hits home quite hard when you see how true it is in the case of China - communist states can and do sell out to capitalist states, running their countries as large corporations. In China, "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others", for example.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, I don't know if you've seen me metaphorically fellating Orwell for it, but let's just put it this way - Christians have the Bible, Muslims have the Qur'an, Jews have the Torah, and I have Nineteen Eighty-Four. My mates have often criticized me in the past for relating every situation in the modern world to something in that book, and though I've kicked the habit now that my knowledge of dystopian fiction has widened, I still do it occasionally. Because you can look at absolutely any situation in our world today, and draw a connection with the way the Party operated in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's not my manual for life, obviously, but I'm sure you get the gist of my comparison - I ****ing love this book. Not only is it excellent as a socio-political commentary, but it's actually good as a tragic story.
