Why are Chinese Youth Proud?The Changing Relationship between Chinese Youth's Educational Attainment and National Pride(1995-2018)
Youth are important participants and builders of national development in China.Youth's national pride will determine the future of the Chinese nation.In the century-long history of the Communist Party of China(CPC),China has always carried patriotic education through the whole educational process of students in school,and constantly shaped the youth's national pride.After a century of hard work,the Chinese nation has made a great leap forward from standing up,becoming rich,and becoming strong.It has made remarkable achievements and is closer to the realization of the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation than at any time in history.Therefore,how does national pride change among youth with different levels of education in different periods and cohorts?Existing literature on this is still scarce.Based on the data of world values of five waves(1995-2018)in China,this paper explores how the youth's educational attainment influences the evolution of their national pride in different periods and cohorts by taking young people aged 18-35 as research objects through the hierarchical age-period-cohort model.The empirical results show that the youth with secondary education has the highest sense of national pride,followed by the youth with higher education and the youth with primary education.The national pride of young people in China shows a U-shaped change trend.Among them,the evolution trend from 1995 to 2012 was mainly caused by the change in young people with primary and secondary education,while the peak in 2018 was mainly caused by the sudden acceleration of young people with higher education.By the cohort,the national pride of young people shows"three peaks and two valleys",which are influenced by changes in national pride among youth with elementary,moderate,and higher education levels,respectively.This paper further uses the APC model with the dummy variable method to conduct robustness tests,and the results are still consistent.In summary,with the changes in the period and cohort,the normative national pride among youth with lower education levels is reconstructed based on their personal status and life experience,while the national pride among youth with higher education levels is mainly determined by rational judgments based on the country's objective achievements.This paper contributes to existing literature in two aspects.First,it explores the change trend of national pride of Chinese youths with different education levels in different periods and cohorts,which expands the static research on the impact of Chinese youth's education level on their national pride.Second,it clarifies the differences and internal mechanisms of national pride among young people with different levels of education in different periods and cohorts.This paper reveals the changing trend and internal reasons of national pride among Chinese youth with different educational levels,which is helpful for China to formulate and implement targeted measures to enhance Chinese youth's national pride in the ever-changing international situation.
national prideyouth's educational attainmentthe age-period-cohort model
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