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The Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement was a Taiwanese

student protest Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academ ...

, against certain proposed senior high school curriculum changes. " Black box" is a reference to the students' concerns about the opaqueness of the proposed change. On 23 July 2015, the protesters stormed the Ministry of Education. The proposed changes to the high school history curriculum included the mention in textbooks of

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during their occupation of Taiwan and the acknowledgement of

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sex-slavery in Asia. Students also protested what they felt was too much straight regurgitation and ''

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'' cramming in the educational system, as well as perceived corruption and mafia connections among politicians.

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President Ma's "Black Box" Problem

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