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it'snotmyfault
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| Lancy Bloom wrote: |
| Is there a translation of Catcher in the Rye that we can give to the Chinese parents? |
That would be too much hazzle... |
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Non Sequitur
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I have noticed how students form really strong bonds with their dorm mates. It seems they are together all the time and I imagine these bonds will continue for the rest of their lives. This really surprises me but maybe I shouldn't be. I've also been told how kids form similarly strong bonds with their grandparents since they have much more contact with them than they do with their mom and dad in many families. I guess if everyone is OK with the situation who are we to say it is bad?
I taught brats for awhile at a language school and there were a couple of parents who expected the school to do their work of raising the little darlings. Sounds like the US. This is clearly bad but maybe it is something that is everywhere nowadays.
DG |
A student friend of mine told me they are encouraged to behave in a socially cohesive way to wards school/dorm mates.
I recall once we were talking on the street outside her living area and a dorm mate approached us. She immediately too the dorm mate's hand and complimented her on something.
I noticed at 'graduation/get a job' time some of them became quite abusive to each other, as the brighter ones got snapped up by the bigger foreign firms.
It was a prestigious college in the accounting/finance industry. |
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wonderingjoesmith
Joined: 19 Aug 2012
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Location: Guangzhou
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| Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| Non Sequitur wrote: |
| DirtGuy wrote: |
I have noticed how students form really strong bonds with their dorm mates. It seems they are together all the time and I imagine these bonds will continue for the rest of their lives. This really surprises me but maybe I shouldn't be. I've also been told how kids form similarly strong bonds with their grandparents since they have much more contact with them than they do with their mom and dad in many families. I guess if everyone is OK with the situation who are we to say it is bad?
I taught brats for awhile at a language school and there were a couple of parents who expected the school to do their work of raising the little darlings. Sounds like the US. This is clearly bad but maybe it is something that is everywhere nowadays.
DG |
A student friend of mine told me they are encouraged to behave in a socially cohesive way to wards school/dorm mates.
I recall once we were talking on the street outside her living area and a dorm mate approached us. She immediately too the dorm mate's hand and complimented her on something.
I noticed at 'graduation/get a job' time some of them became quite abusive to each other, as the brighter ones got snapped up by the bigger foreign firms.
It was a prestigious college in the accounting/finance industry. |
From what I have seen, students are encouraged to assist each other in order to finish their courses together. Nobody is supposed to be left behind regardless of how dull one may be. Having graduated from such a non-competitive system surely offers little to employers except the locally much needed loyalty.
I really don�t think people around are satisfied with the trend at all; they have no choice but to work their arses off for their families and employers. It appears the system keeps parents and their kids hostages. With the long hours at work, parents exploited, and with the hope grandparents and schools take care of kids, desire for traditional views and controls are in place. As a result of that, the young Chinese generation, for example, displays some strong feelings about Japanese which may be passed on to them from their grandparents, the generation that remembers suffering, and then the offspring seem to have quite a limited general knowledge on varieties of topics which may be related to the largely standardized and manipulative educational system as well as the undereducated older generation.
No matter what, if parents know their kids so little and are so awkward about debating their loved ones with schools/teachers, those meetings ought to be re-named to �Grandparents Meetings� which�d probably be more constructive. How the local job market and economy will cope with the coming generation and what the higher education abroad will do with mainland Chinese applications remains to be seen. |
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