Discovery Atlas: China

[Mizuchi]

I found this show amazing, especially the story of jin yang (I think her name was). A 12 year old doing things that senior gymnists at my highschool can only dream of doing. All my life people in school kept telling me "you are so lucky to live in america". Well, after seeing this I think differently. China is so well organized and the type of training they have for anything at all exceeds most training you will commonly find in america tenfold.

In China, the average 5th grader excels in algebra 2. I was at the nurses office one day, and a junior came in, and the nurse asked him what class he had next. The kid answered: "Pre-algebra".

China they don't have overweight people, and all who are stupid are sent to work in factories to make themselves useful. They are a very effecient country, and use everything they can and only for the right purpose for each creature.

They cook snakes, frogs, almost anything you can think of, where here we have a small variety of foods to eat compared to the east.

China is also much stricter though. For just crossing the border into china with a small bag of illegal grass in your back pocket, you are sentanced to the death penalty, where here you see parties of like 8th graders smoking pot and drinking their asses off.

Well now, that was my 2 cents on the show. Discuss.

[bagandscalpel]

Sounds great! Much better than this dingy hole-in-the-wall known as the West!

Tell you what, go to China, live there for a spell (and I mean LIVE there), then come back and report to me. If you can still retain the same zest for it that you have shown in this topic, then I'll give you a cookie.

[Board of Command]

As a Chinese person who lived in China for over 8 years, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Canada is a much better place to live in than China.

[Psyke]

I'd rather visit Japan a dozen times than visit China. Not that I don't like the place but I don't think I can get along with the people there. Their customs, way of living, traditions, etc. I'm Chinese too but just too westernised/Japanised (if there's such a word).

[Yukimura]

From the reports of my friend who spent a year at the 'Number 2 University' ion China, I would haveto say CHina sounds like a terrible place to live. He told me all the students at the school just fucked around until the exams then cheated there asses off. He was a big fan of China, having visited for weeks or months at a time, however after spending that year there, he says he never wants to go back.

[Mizuchi]

He told me all the students at the school just fucked around until the exams then cheated there asses off.

If you havent read the artical a while back, a teacher in kansas caught 1/4 of her class cheating on a project that was worth a big chunk of her grade, and failed them. Even before she gave the assignment, she made them and their parents sign a contract that they would not cheat and if they did they would fail the assignment. The parents were idiots and irresponsible and whined to the school board, who in turn overturned the teacher's decision and made te project worth a very small amount. The teacher now knew that no one would take her seriously anymore and quit the job.

People all over the world view america as the "Cheating Nation", because this happens everywhere. I'm not insulting america or anything, I am just backing up China when you say that they cheated. And besides, I think they can relax on learning a bit seeing how they are much further up on the technology scale than us.

Also, I am not trying to make China sound like the best country. This thread is for those who saw the documentary. Everything I am saying is based off the show, now get back on topic.

[xDarkMaster]

As a Chinese person who lived in China for over 8 years, I can tell you with absolute certainty that Canada is a much better place to live in than China.

QFT.

As another Chinese person who has been to China over 10 times I can definitely say without doubt that it isn't as good as America or Canada. China isn't as great as you make it out to be, in fact it is probably worse than you can imagine.

[Terracosmo]

All my life people in school kept telling me "you are so lucky to live in america". Well, after seeing this I think differently.

For just crossing the border into china with a small bag of illegal grass in your back pocket, you are sentanced to the death penalty,

Do you even read what you write?

[mage]

I was going to watch the re-run last night at 1am, but then 30 mins into it I realized it's like 3 hours long or some shit. Guess I'll download it.

[XanBcoo]

In b4 Communism.


But seriously, I've been to China. It was good for a visit, but I don't think I could live there. Also, thinking about those Chinese kids being overworked in school makes me think they'd probably be pretty stressed and unhappy all the time. I'm not saying all of them would be (every country has workaholics), but that's not the kind of life I'd force on my kid, even if he could do Calculus by the time he was 12.

[Terracosmo]

I hear they eat the brains of monkeys in China. Watch out, Mizuchi!

[Mizuchi]

I hear they eat the brains of monkeys in China. Watch out, Mizuchi!

Do YOU even read what you write?

[Sapphire]

Bumped! But this seems like the perfect topic..

China is unique in that they systematically still hand pick children from a young age and pretty much gear their entire life to the pursuit of one skill or field, and having 1 billion people to choose from helps in that cause.

I've heard this before. What exactly is the job and school process in China, anyway? How to people pick their careers and stuff? How similar is it to America?