Due today pls help asap 1. Highlight any words and
phrases that describe the
Four Olds in the text.
Destroy the Four Olds!
2. What do you think the Four
Olds are?
Our beloved Chairman Mao had started the
Cultural Revolution in May. Every day since then on
the radio we heard about the need to end the evil and
pernicious influences of the "Four Olds": old ideas,
old culture, old customs, and old habits. Chairman
Mao told us we would never succeed at building a
strong socialist country until we destroyed the “Four
Olds" and established the "Four News." The names of
many shops still stank of old culture, so the signs had
to be smashed to make way for the coming of new
ideas.
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