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).

[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.

[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.

[Assassin]

And besides, I think they can relax on learning a bit seeing how they are much further up on the technology scale than us.

Techhnology has nothing to do with learning. A faster computer or a more advanced calculator doesn't make it easier to learn something.

Everything I am saying is based off the show, now get back on topic

Everyone has just been replying to your post, so nobody is currently off topic.

[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?

[Terracosmo]

I didn't read it the first time, but when I saw you quote it I did and I subsequently laughed realizing my own level of hilarity. Ah, good times.

[mage]

Do YOU even read what you write?

He called you a monkey.

[ChaosK]

Mizuchi, what you have described in your first post is a utopia. China is unfortunately, not a utopia. There are horrible conditions everywhere, you might find people, thats right people taking shits in the middle of the street, not animals, PEOPLE. Now then, in the form of a utopia, there are no fat people in China. Can you honestly believe that?

Again in the utopia, everybody is equal and everybody is the same, correct? AC is scarce in China aside from at corperation buildings, malls and such. The people there rarely turn on their AC even if they have one. There are people bitching about 80 degrees weather while blasting their AC at 60, then you go to China and its 100 without AC, I'm pretty sure I'd much rather America.

China is veerry unsanitary. As I said with people shitting in the middle of the street and such. Here you have to pick up after the dogs, let alone yourself.

Okay lets keep going, you said a person crossing the border with weed would be sentanced to death (which isn't even true) there is no fucking drinking law in China. Let's see...we walk into a bar and see 10 year olds smashed...lovely aint it?


Mage was it necessary to explain it? That killed it.

[Board of Command]

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.

The education system in China is the exact opposite of the West. It's living hell from grade 1 to 12, and easy as pie once you actually get into university. That's why you find most university students just screwing around all the time - because they can afford to. The toughest part is university entrance, and after that you're basically set.

Also, thinking about those Chinese kids being overworked in school makes me think they'd probably be pretty stressed and unhappy all the time.

No kid in China has a social life. It's just school work and extracurricular classes/lessons all week long.

you might find people, thats right people taking shits in the middle of the street, not animals, PEOPLE.

Hey man, don't be making fun of me.

[ChaosK]

Oh right, BoC reminded me, in China you have to take tests for every stage of school (except elementary? I'm not sure about this one). You are pressured from the moment you exit elementary school (or maybe even before) to take entrance exams to middle school, then again for high school, and finally for college.

[Mizuchi]

Okay lets keep going, you said a person crossing the border with weed would be sentanced to death (which isn't even true)

If you actually watched the show you would notice it is true. A man tried to smuggle in drugs into china. They caught him, and he was sentanced to death. Actually watch the documentary before you comment on the thread next time.

Oh right, BoC reminded me, in China you have to take tests for every stage of school (except elementary? I'm not sure about this one). You are pressured from the moment you exit elementary school (or maybe even before) to take entrance exams to middle school, then again for high school, and finally for college.

I know. My brother has a chinese friend who was probably not going to pass the tests and would've been sent to work in a factory, but was lucky enough and was able to move here. He is thought of as a genius here by his peers.

[ChaosK]

So, present day China, I walk in with weed in my pocket, I'm gonna get sentanced to death? And then killed?