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yumin zhengce | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 愚民政策 | ||||||||
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Hangul | 우민정책 | ||||||||
Hanja | 愚民政策 | ||||||||
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Kanji | 愚民政策 | ||||||||
Kana | ぐみんせいさく | ||||||||
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Yumin zhengce (Chinese: 愚民政策; pinyin: yúmín zhèngcè, lit. 'policy of governing ignorant masses') is a chengyu and concept in Chinese political philosophy.
The term refers to the practice of a government deliberately keeping its population in a state of ignorance in order to make them more obedient to political authority and too incompetent to form effective rebellions against the state, thus rendering them more easily subjugated.