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Jason Lee / Reuters
Students walk out of a school after the first test of the National College Entrance Exams in Beijing on June 7.
More than nine million Chinese students embarked Tuesday on the gaokao, a make-or-break college entrance exam described by Xinhua as "the most pressure packed test in the world." Ramping up that pressure a little itself, the local news agency continued:
Expectations are high. Only a fraction will make it to the top universities in the country. The result of the two-day test could define their fate in a fast changing world. They will face their fears and some will conquer them. With the support of a nation, the future rests on the shoulders of a generation coming of age.
Jason Lee / Reuters
Mothers wait near a school as their children take the National College Entrance Exams in Beijing on June 7.
According to a report in The Christian Science Monitor, teachers at some schools have adopted what is described as a more Western approach, aimed at encouraging their students to chill out, instead of piling on the stress:
A school in Beijing is telling its Year 13 students to go out and lie on the grass for a while. Others are organizing pillow fights or games of blind-man’s buff or limbo dancing competitions.
Shi Tou / Reuters
A member of staff from the city's command centre of education exams watches real time monitors showing students taking the National College Entrance Exams in Chongqing municipality on June 7.
Meanwhile, the high stakes involved have apparently led some to seek out elaborate ways of cheating. The AP reports from Beijing:
China's Education Ministry says police have detained 62 people for selling wireless headphones, two-way radios and other electronic devices to cheat on this week's nationwide college entrance exam.
The ministry said in an announcement Sunday the detentions are intended to protect the exam's integrity. More than 9 million high school students are to take the test Tuesday and Wednesday.
In a society where many people see connections as crucial to getting ahead, the entrance exam is defended as meritocratic, giving everybody a chance of attending university.
Sean Yong / Reuters
A police officer uses a wireless signal detector to detect possible transmissions of exam information via radio devices or "radio cheating", outside a school during the National College Entrance Exams, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on June 7
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Interesting how many cheating deterrents they have when the culture encourages ripping off patents, making "knock off" items illegaly branded, bootlegging cd's and movies and cheating in general, you would think they would encourage cheating to get these kids ready for real life.
What does your inflammatory post have to do with this article? It was emphasizing the extreme difficulty and quality of their education.
Perhaps you don't understand because you haven't spoken to a high class Chinese immigrant. The Chinese, amongst other nations highly value education; as a result many of them are experts in their fields. It could mean a life and death sentence for them, and that all of their years of struggle have been negated over a few exams.
That is the difference between the American and Chinese educational system.
It seems ignorant to imagine the Chinese as simple bootleggers, sweat shop workers, and farmers, when, I'm sure, many of them have struggled for recognition in high tech fields.
Michael, if the Chinese education system is so superior, and I'm not syaing it's not, why are the Chinese so intent on "reverse engineering" so many products that are already out there? Why are there so many inferior products coming out of China?
It's actually the value placed on education by the culture that makes the system "superior," the system is the result of the efforts of those who participate in the system, i.e. parents, etc. The label of inferior products is a bit unfair as many of our products, including the computers on which many of these emails are written and Apple products such as the iPhone (and other smart phones) come from China. Recall, too, that the "inferior" products label was also applied to Japan a few decades ago and look now. The "reverse engineering" is a way by which people can learn how products work and thereby improve their own products. Not to forget, either, that many of the U.S. products that are being reversed engineered are older, having been invented and developed over the last few decades.
The point is that the Chinese are hungry and eager to modernize their economy. With 1,300,000,000 people if we have to compete with the top 25% smartest Chinese, we are competing with 325,000,000 people—more people than ALL of the population of the U.S. We had better discipline ourselves and get back to the things that made the U.S. what it has been, hard work and education. Parents: tend to your children and their future.
@Pat-819592, Every country
"reverse engineers" existing products. The US has done it in the past; much of the
German (after WWII) and Russian military equipment since have been bought,
stolen or confiscated to see how they work, how they compare to ours and how to
defeat it.
US automakers have
purchased cars from other manufacturers and torn them apart to help design
better units.
@Pat-819592, Every country "reverse engineers" existing products. The US has done it in the past; much of the German (after WWII) and Russian military equipment since have been bought, stolen or confiscated to see how they work, how they compare to ours and how to defeat it.
US automakers have purchased cars from other manufacturers and torn them apart to help design better units.
It's a fact that once you design something, someone else will design something to better it.
You are missing it guys... Their educational system is archaic and atrocious. The reason there are so many TOP students who come to the USA is a shear numbers game. Try taking your own high school and allowing only the valedictorian EVERY THREE or FOUR YEARS to go to another country as incoming students. Taht is close to what we see in USA exchanges. Yes there are many students who are intelligent but I would venture to guess the percentage is no greater than USA or Africa for that matter. the difference is the pressure to succeed on the test. Simple Supply and Demand! Students study so hard to get into a good college then "coast" after entrance, much different than USA where high schools may lack grade credibility but in many universities there is a challenge or research capabilities. No doubt there are problems in USA educational system. But do no be so quick to place China above it without seeing it for yourself.
You guys all know that this article is about the North Koreans, right?
i don't know where you get your ignorant perception from. but those who copy stuff are the one who want to make a quick bucks, and due to luck of copy right law and enforcement. it has nothing to do with culture encourage on cheating.
....in any other culture- that's called cheating
something the Chinese are Masters of....
But hey, anybody know where I can buy top-quality, name-brand merchandise at huge discount?
robbopaloobop
lets see if US abolish copy right law and its enforcement. do you think US company steal/copy from other company tech will increase or stay same. its same with other laws. the purpose of copyright law is punish those who steal/cheat/copy others work. US has decent policies/laws on this, but it take US very long time to come up with these laws. china just start developing their economy and these laws, it will take them a long before these policies are fine tuned or enforced properly. its not about culture encourge on cheating, its about lack of enforement. if there are no law or enforcement against stealing, people will steal more. if there are no law or enforcement against copyright, company will copy more.
s002wjh, you might want to reconsider that "ignorant" statement and look into the knockoff vehicles produced by Chery Motors, a state-run automobile manufacturer. Theft of intellectual property in China is not just the actions of a small minority - it is often a matter of policy and Chinese business practices.
Granted, this doesn't mean that it happens across all industries (although there are many more examples) but Chinese auto manufacturing is essentially an exercise in intellectual property theft and is almost always government-mandated.
You could also look into how the Chinese government has been handling companies who want to sell hybrid or electric vehicles in the Peoples Republic. They require the foreign entity to hand over their intellectual property (along with the rights to it) and pair up with a government-owned company.
dcw85
you do know chery is a partner with foreign auto company before. they import many technology from those company. multinational tech corp who do business in china usually HAS to have a local partner. the local partner get access of foreign tech while foreign company can access chinese market, cheap labor, lax environment law, non-union protection etc etc. whether is GM, ford, toyota, volkswagon they all have their local partner. for example dongfeng motor has join partner with nissian, honda, and other auto companys, dongfeng import many technology transfer from these company. its the greed of these multinational corp that allow their valuable tech willing transfer to chinese company.
as said before its not about culture perception on cheat, but peoples greed, lack of enforcement and copy right protection laws, and its easiser and fincianlly sound to import/copy tech then re-invent the wheel.
You're absolutely right that companies go to China to take advantage of their lax labor laws, and obviously to gain access to an enormous market. I won't debate you on that. What I'm talking about, though, is the government stance on intellectual property. Take a look at the Chery (and let's keep in mind that Chery is essentially an extension of the Chinese government) knockoffs of the BMW X5, the VW Tiguan, and the Toyota Rav4. None of these vehicles were created under partnerships or joint ventures, and one does not need to be an engineer to understand that they are blatant copies of the original manufacturer's vehicle. This sort of open copying would not fly in any other large nation.
Interesting to see a culture where the best and brightest go on to college instead of the most able to pay. They will rule the world.
Like the Hell they will!
the copy might has its apperance but the core tech, engine, auto-control tech etc are vastly differents. toyota can choose to sue them but it will take alot effort and money. auto-tech are not easily copied as software. again its due to lack of enforcements not culture encourge on cheat. people cheat because its easier way out. if US doesn't have copy right protection law, and harsh enforcements. company will copy each others products without impunity. in early 20th century, and 19th century US import many tech from british and other european countries. furthermore by your standard european copy gunpowder, paper making, compass from china.
its the laws and enforcement in US that prevent coping/steal tech from other company. china lack these laws and enforcement, it has nothing to do with culture encourge on cheating.
The rampant theft of intellecual property is due to lack of enforcement - not encouragement? THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED AUTO MANUFACTURER IS THE ONE STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. How is that not encouraging it?!
Yes, intellectual property theft would be an issue in the US if not for regualtion on it. There are two key differences: 1) our government is not sponsoring the theft of intellectual property and 2) our government has specific laws against theft of intellectual property.
As for stealing gunpowder and paper making for the Chinese, you're right - the Chinese were innovators... centuries ago and it's not right that the Europeans stole their technology. What that has to do with stealing the design of the 2010 Rav4, however, is beyond me.
china doesn't have specific laws against copyright, even if it has, it lack the enforement to punish those who steal tech. GM suit chery before, but the law suit was settle off the court later. chery is own by government but all decision on chery is coming from its excutive. there are many lawsuit from multinational corp sueing a chinese company on copyright, but some win, some don't. again china lack decent laws against intellectual property. i'm not sure why people try to make this as culture encourge issues. if US abloish laws/enforcement on stealing, stealing will increase, and would you say this is because US is encourging stealing.
soo2wjh- What language is that
Cheating is endemic in China, from the government on down...it's almost as if it has become a cultural norm
they have become so good at it that we now see hoards of Chinese students being admitted to US colleges who have magically aced the SAT....yet they are unable to converse in English
I wouldn't trust the Chinese - their people or their government
maybe you should talk to some chinese student who enroll in top US university, and ask their GPA. goto silicon valley and see how many indian and chinese working in high tech company such as cisco, google, yahoo etc. chinese is know for their ability to ace the exam, but they lack imagination/creativity as western student. however once they work in industry or enroll in US school, they become creative as any western students.
cheating is china agains is due to lack of enforement. if you think china is cheating, check indian student in US.
and maybe you should stop talking like you know it all, my friend....I have alot more first-hand experience in this area than you might think
and as for the Indians, you make a good point...they are just as corrupt as the Chinese
Are you kidding me robbapaloobop? Please list your credentials, because I know of many immigrant Americans who would scoff at your statement. I graduated from John's Hopkins and attend UPenn medical and I know the Chinese, Indians, Taiwanese, Japanese immigrants are quite competent in their fields.
Is it perhaps that other ethnic groups have an extremely high regard for education?
Because those I've spoken with have aren't "corrupt". I don't know who you've met in your first hand experience, but your racist blanket statements should not ever cover an entire ethnic group, eliminating individuality. So maybe you've met a few jerks in your first hand experiences.
My friend's father spoke enough English after working multiple jobs and attaining credentials from a prestigious University in Taiwan. It was NOT a mere rags to riches that he came to the US with a few honest bucks and worked his way up to the top dealing with racist stereotyping. He explained to me how it was far more extreme than the "Pursuit of Happiness" made struggling for a job seemed for someone of color.
As well, the many Asian-American students I work with studied their asses off in their country, spending sleepless nights memorizing and studying. If you have first hand experience, then you'd understand that Asian Americans are studying years prior to the SATs, forcing themselves to take AP courses while still dealing with discriminatory factors that would push them down. And many of them can write in english because their worked their asses off in their tedious English courses.
By the way, the "hordes" of Asians who have aced the exams deserve praise. The wanted a better life in the US, where many American students barely study at all in comparison.
I'm sure from statements like your own, the chinese are simply impoverished cheaters.
Americans don't need people like you who make others feel like second class citizens.
*I am of German descent. Don't call me Chinese because I defend a general group of people from social stigma.
Hundreds of Chinese were busted in a GMAT cheating scandal a few years back. Real world fact not an anecdotal. Look it up. This very article points out the steps the Chinese themselves must take to stop cheating. Again, real world not anecdotal and repeated nowhere in the western world. Many Chinese products are such a blatant copy of the originals the parts are interchangeable. Chery copied a Daewoo so exactly they attempted to use a real Daewoo in crash tests because the Chery copies were notorius for failing crash tests due to their inferior metallurgy. Defend all you want but it is a FACT academic cheating and piracy are rampant in China and defended by the government.
At least Chinese and Indian kids are motivated to learn. Un-like the lazy American kids and the illegal residents from Mexico we are forced to educate. I've trained smarter and more motivated Border Collies.
if there is a will, there is a way. do chinese believe and live the phrase ...to beg, borrow and steal? Yes, and they also cheat. Not to say others do not. that would be false. However, it is so ingrained into the fabric of the their society as well as in India, they believe if they can find the group of people or person who with will open doors if they are given money. I know a Chinese girl who came into the US and I don't have the slightest idea where her money came from , but she strongly believed she could buy her way into a top university. she is back in china now but returns pretty often . she has not yet found her way in.
interesting debate between robbopaloobop and s002wjh. It looks clearly that one is american and the other chinese. Evidently both are trying to defend their camp , sometimes with more emotion than reason. I do not agree with them both when they tend to generalise about such issues. There are so many honest, law-abiding, hard working citizens, companies and other groups in both countries that it would be unfair to emphasise on only those( a minority) who are involved in corrupt practices.
This is definitely the best point.
Let reason prevail! what i know isboth 'camps' need to see the value of each others good points. In many ways i feel sorry for their young people for all that pressure not just from the system but also the family pressure while our kids burn their days on X box or playstations.
I see no problem with merit based admissions especially in areas of science and engineering. Currently the Chinese are producing 40 engineers to our one. We here in the states better take a hard look at our priorities before we criticize because we are losing or are going to lose our advantage if this is not adressed.
Also we should take a look at the weight we place on curriculum and grades. I can get into a great university by padding my grade point with pottery classes and this is even more true if my parent graduated from the university I graduated from.
Other issues raised is the cheating and copying of things. I know this. When HP wants to assemble their PCs in China....the patents are handed over also. This applies to all technology including Boeings. If one thinks that software pirating in China is the work of 'entrpreneus or that business are self started think again. The government owns it and allows people to manage them and calls them owners. Should i produce cd there i am in essence giving away my patents and allowing them to produce them. So in essence the rights I may complain of being violated are my fault for losing.
Our corporations thinkingand trade policy is short sighted. They are looking ahead. Gotta respect it.
We should get our house in order and get our kids into learning not playing so much and our corporations and government should get a clue by putting our people first. I think they are in many ways doing a better job of that than we are.
An old saying stipulates before you criticze another, look at yourself first.
Because my wife and step daughter are Chinese , I guess that makes me a China lover..
All I hear is so much hate....
Hmmmm, gotta chime in here as someone with experience both in the US academic world and in manufacturing/engineering. s002wjh needs to do more research and open his/her eyes. The communist Chinese system is on full scale world dominance mode. In academics here in US, I witnessed first hand at a top graduate school Chinese students cheating (by sharing work for homework assignments when it is strickly forbidden). Also during tests. It seemed an accepted idea to them that whoever were the strongest among them would help the lesser-skilled ones. They formed a kind of mafia and no other person besides Chinese were allowed into the circle. There were caucasian Americans, Koreans and Thai students in the class. All were shunned and excluded from the cheat-mob. It was sickening. I almost wondered if it had to do with the Marxist/communist principle of egalitarian achievement---the strongest give to the weakest so all are equal as a group.
Regarding outright IP theft, there is utterly no argument that China has achieved its success and rapid rise to its current economic power by IP theft. It is rampant, accepted and encouraged. Do some research on high speed rail in China and how they screwed the Europeans and Japanese companies, stealing their tech and then breaking agreements to compete outside China. They are ruthless in their pursuit of global dominance....not in a violent scorched earth way, like a terrorist state (Iran, NKorea, etc.) but in a systematic expansion of their influence across the globe. China's military is under massive moderization and expansion and it is not for defense. The sole reason this is going on is the complicity of the US population. Right now, China NEEDS the US and European markets to buy their manufactured stuff. We do, willingly, by our incessant dependence on Walmart and cheap products. So, we buy their goodies, they take our money to build up their country and military, smirking all the while. As soon as they don't NEED US/Europe to buy their stuff, that is to say as soon as their exponentially growing middle class becomes their own internal market of consumers, we become irrelevant, they call their bonds, we can't pay them and they politely ask for other resources. "Okay instead of paying this $100 billion note, we'll accept...oh let's see....rights to 50% of the oil in your gulf," or "Hmmmm, you can't pay that pesky little $250billion loan? No problem, just hand over Alaska." If readers think this is exaggeration or hyperbole, do your research. We will have no choice but to give in or face military conflict defending our resources (that they will desperately need at that point). Will we want to take on China after another 5-10 years of massive military build-up while we cut ours to nothing? Not so much.
In a matter of a decade, China will annex the USA. Watch and learn, my dear, watch and learn. Start learning Mandarin NOW. It will be your way to survive. The only dynamic that would derail this scary scene is a democratic revolution but we all know how difficult that is to achieve (does Tiananmen Square ring a bell? Ask a Tibetan about how kind and nice the Chinese gov't is). To get a feel for how the Chinese gov't gets along these days with its neighbors (Vietnam-check out South China Sea dispute, Japan-look up Diaoyu/Senkaku island possession dispute, Taiwan-well we all know about that potential powder keg, Philippines/Taiwan/Vietnam-Paracel Islands).
Chinese culture is deep and rich and her people are beautiful, kind, intelligent and like all of us. Unfortunately they are in a prison camp and being used as puppets to further the goals of the People's Congress and the CCP. Same deal in Iran--wonderful beautiful people...intelligent, talented, kind, rich history and culture---all prisoners of the mulahs and the nutcase at the helm.
China has certainly been kicked around during her history and suffered greatly. Her emergence can be one of peace and success and "all getting along nicely please" but it will take a huge governmental change for this to occur.
Okay, I got a bit sidetracked...
I largely agree with you. The world economy is now commodity based. Thus the dollar is is not the standard anymore. bonds and treasury notes are paper. i do think part of the dollars freefall is intentional policy meant to lessen the 'quality of the debt. If the dollar collapses the debt will be paid for pennies on the buck. This is why China is buying gold...heging the bet.
Yes they will need our resources.....just as they are pushing for control over others fishing grounds. yes our people are complicit in the problem. We are economically ignorant and are acting like sheep being led to slaughter.
I studied Chinese history and their pride was greatly wounded by the west for several hundred years. They have a culturaly ingrained sense that china is by right the geo-political center of the world. If they do not expand the areas from which they draw resources they will however have problems at home. Their agriculture cant keep up with deman and many areas which are like our midwest are in a decades long drought. If American corporate and government leadership do not start putting the US first...what you have written will come to pass.
In America, we have the Palin/Beck logic working.....GOD will do everything for us....we do not have to work together collectively....selfishness, greed, and slight of hand worked well for them and the top 1% of our society....their kids do not have to abstain....do not have to have high morals....but the rest of the nation has to act like their lap dogs....the hell with our social security contributions...our medicare deductions....they can contribute the same as the lowest earners and get the benifits they can combine with their tax reduced incomes to really ....really live well....GOD be praised....He is coming to rapture them out. While China is getting their kids to struggle and study to advance our society....our kids go to ever more deprived schools...deprived of teachers...of facilities and books that teach religion over science. Yep, Sara and the Neo Cons are selling us a bill of goods....AS soon as we end medicare, social security....the top 1% will bring jobs to America away from the more educated and skilled China...YOU GOTTA BELIEVE
There is no logical way you can blame this on the palins and Becks alone. Blame the pelosis and Reeds, Obamas and Bushes. The others at fault are our corporate leaders also. Companies are licensed by the government to operate the way they do. That being the case neither Dems not Repukes have done a damn thing to produce more engineers and scientists or discourage the job exodus.
In the meantime our kids are spending hours a day in front of play stations and xboxes. Our education system is administratively bloated and they are teaching kids to pass tests rather than be educated and that again is government policy. One must also ask why the debt we owe to China is so large...can you say 'entitlements'? If we want to compete forget the partisan bickering and finger pointing. Bottom line... our institurions must improve their priorities from self serving, lying congressmen to people who serve the nation not a political party.
Quality education can not be performed by teachers who call in sick to demonstrate. Our current administration has spent millions and climbing participating in Libya while the last Congress denied seniors a Cola for 2 years.
Companies that ship jobs overseas should lose their tax staus and those funds used to retire the debt to China. discipline and focus need to be re established by parents to their kids before the educational money pit can be taken off life support. If I made 10 million this year I am not creating jobs...so put that tax rate up to 50%. Small business needs encouragement not those hoarding the pie.
We got to figure a way to restablish manufacturing here bottom line with a work force that is savy and motivated to improve life in the good ol USof A......not be parasites.
Well Eric......I am guessing that you did not spend most of your life working. I did. I paid the maximum into Social Security and the Medicare......It is my money......And by the way, I paid into the teacher retirement system after social security, medicare, FICA, State taxes, property taxes. I held all the degrees and earned less than the average auto worker.....yet my retirement gets taken away. To be sure, I also worked in industry as a union employee, and later as a manager who was successful. What you are missing is that successful corporations need people who are committed to the survival of that corporation.......The corporate raiders who leveraged and wiped out our corporations, bankrupted them, and sold them, their patents, and in many cases stripped the plants to the walls and sent it to China.....Beginning with Regan, the Republicans called these folks our heroes. Don't damn the Unions, don't damn the workers or the men and women who are the machinery of our government called civil servants.....
Biggest camel-toe I have seen, I thought it was supposed to be sideways.
Why do they put radio monitors outside test rooms? Discard political correctness and open your eyes: They have monitors because in oriental culture, people cheat all the time and they themselves know it. The Chinese aren't superior -- they just fake it: fake grades, copycat products, etc. They fake everything in China, from DVDs to even toothpaste. At the University of Virginia Engineering School, I observed they fake every test they can, to them its only wrong if you are caught. Don't believe it? You need to closely watch the two or three Asian kids sitting close together for a tough test... whispering into tiny mikes or using hand signals. Also, nobody overhearing knows what they said. They make a joke of honor systems: their only loyalty is to their buddies. Why do we put up with this stuff? Expel the cheaters!
there are people cheat whether is american/chinese/indian, i've seen some american student cheat during my college yr in ohio. to say every chinese cheat and that their culture encourge cheat not only is a prejudice sterotype but to the point of racist. i know many chinese graduate from top university in US with master/PHD degree. not only they have flawless GPA, but they also receive recommandation letter from their professor and dean of that department when transfer or looking for jobs. futhermore goto any high tech company, there are plenty chinese/indian work there, if they were cheating in school and didn't learn anything, they won't even past the technical interview(this is the biggest prove that chinese are academic driven, especially in engineering field). chinese student don't study 8-10 hr per day for fun, if they can cheat their way through then why bother study so hard. how many asia/chinese professor you notice in universities, none of them cheat their why through, all of them work their butt of during their grad school to acheive this status.
Yup there ya have it. Another bunch of educational CRAP brought to you by the illustrious ?Chinese Fing government.
That exam center as they call it looks like a freaken penitentuary.That woman sitting behind the glass looks like a STUPID prison guard.
What a bunch of PHONY CONSTRAINING BULL SH IT!
It's not the chinese people I hate. It's the OBNOXIOUS IDIOTIC STUPID TOTALETARIAN GOVERNMENT they are under.That government is about as corrupt and lame as you're going to get.
The Chinese are quite a racist group. Ever go on a college campus? They do well in school, but not so well in the real world. This is because Americans don't tolerate the racist attitudes.
Sara, and yet another idiotic comment. You say all Chinese are racist? That comment itself is a racist statement. So how are you any better? I'd really like to know.
This is so sad that such pressure is put on the youth because previous generations had too many kids and now overpopulationis causing a severe strain on resources including education. What is even more pathetic is that the human species still does not think limiting birth rate growth is the responsible thing to do for the welfare of future generations. When I see things like this I just want to throw my hands up and say the human species is too arrogant greedy and stupid to do better.
What most who fear the rise of China fail to remember is that history repeats itself. China has throughout history sought domination over the world as they knew it at the time. Each time they have failed from within in their quest, and they will again. The Chinese people are already demanding more pay, better conditions, more information, etc. Note the pictures of the students wearing english language t-shirts. The Chinese governments have time and again allowed greater freedom, whether communist or the dynasties, only to crack down before the people can rise up and effect a democracy. China will then take a giant step backward socially and economically and start the process all over again. Whether it is the communist, another dynasty or what, one thing is sure, it will be a dictatorship as it has been for centuries.
David....look up the scientific breakouts in the USA and notice the names of the people doing the work. Notice a majority of them are Asians. Been to the doctor lately......bet he is not from the USA. When we stop thinking like "The Family Guy" and the rest of the FOX comedy media, we can maybe work together like real Americans and make sure our kids, parents, and colleagues get a fair shake ....they are the ones the USA should spend most of their tax money on.....If you are an American and not a corporate stooge who posts here. China works as a nation.....we need to do the same or we are doomed to failure.
My wife passed and went to college. Only 2% or 3% got to go to college in her day. This article didn't say how many get to go now.
Given our awful performance, it looks like we need something like that in this country. Kids - and their parents - do not take their futures seriously enough.
Let's be honest here, guys, everyone cheats. Even if you don't want to admit it, simply blaming one ethnic group for cheating because of incidents where it happens, coined the availability heuristic in psychological terms, would make you a hypocrite. How do you think the British forced their way into the East Asian Markets back in the 1800s? By dealing drugs. Why did it lead up to this? Because the Chinese treated them like crap. Let's be honest now, we're not all innocent
Stealing ideas is stealing. Sure, there may be a couple of baddies in that big barrel (probably motivated by western partners). But I don't think most Chinese would do that, especially not for a profit. Friends of mine were visiting and near the Forbidden City, lost their expensive new camera. They went looking the next morning -- and found it on the same bench where they had left it. Apart from the piece of plastic placed over it to save it from the rain, it was untouched. Try that next time you visit the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum or Central Park. Ten thousand people could've taken it, but taking what is not yours by right is stealing. The Chinese don't approve of that, even if the victim is a Yankee tourist.