Posted: 4/24/2007 11:06:39 PM EDT
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link I'd paste the text but I can't paste the pictures. Take a look. I think the English math test is way too easy for aspiring science graduates, but I majored in Statisics in college and took my share of math courses and don't recall ever studying how to do the Chinese problem. Can anyone solve it? |
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The Chinese force their children to act, perform, live a certain way. In America our kids are out of control, literally, they are too spoiled, too babied, and self-absorbed. Kids having sex with their teachers, kids blowing money right and left, drugs, not to mention what is going on once they get to college. The Chinese kids realize that to become anything they are going to have to compete with a billion other Chinese. In America our kids are growing up thinking they are entitled to something. Just watch MTV's my "Super Sweet Sixteen" and you will want to drive to the nearest mall and start strangling high school girls. |
And yet, America doesn't force abortions on women, shoot dissidents in the back of the head, or ban religion. What's more, we are still innovators and lead the world in crucial areas like defense and medicine. Gee whiz, howz do we ever do it if all our kids are so fucked up?   Here's where your critique of US falls on its ass. It's a blanket stereotype, and mingled in with the shitwits and MTV kids are the very best children, young adults, and bright minds the world has to offer.....all prospering under the freedom of the United States and that's what makes our productivity special because it blooms like a wildflower. Chinese kids might be pushed to exceed, but they're stifled, and that's never the best way. Their brand of social structure is ant-like, ours is not. I don't wish that shit on our children, and I'd rather have 75% of our country lazy and stupid than live under the tight control of a homogeneous and strict government. |
Our current postion in the world is based on where prior generations got us. Our grand parents and great-grand parents. Not the current generation, us or our parents, assuming your are in the 20-40 age range. It isn't a critique of the US as a whole but of where the current social trend is taking us. Go to a college right now and take a good look at what is going on. It isn't like it was 20-30 years ago. College kids are racking up huge debts and basically learning jack-shit, besides a bunch of liberal BS. Take the civil rights movement, the people who were really involved with that are pulling their hair out as the current "thug culture" is hell bent on tearing all that work apart. Our place right now was determined 50-60 years ago, give our country another 50 years and we will be so far out paced by China's advancement that in 100 years we will be like England is now. I don't just watch TV and base my assessments off it, a lot of what is see is in people of my own generation. Most of my whole family served in the military, uncles, grand fathers, my dad. Of my generation in my family I am the only one. All my cousins have some sort of BS going on in their lives, two are gay, onei s in prison, others have been in prison, none of them are anything like our ancestors. Of my high school friends, most that didn't go to school are into meth, jail, or dead end jobs. The ones who went to college are eyes deep in debt. I would say out of the 125 kids in my class 15 of them are actually successful enough to look at there lives and say, I'm happy, I'm where I want to be. Everyone else is just existing. And the generations of classes below me just seem to be getting worse and worse. And the saddest part is none of these people have any real life skills, they don't know who to cook or clean up after themselves, they have no practical skills, and most of them have no long term goals. Yeah, we live in great society but, right now is seems like it's running amock with a sort abandon, it doesn't seem to have the "Come to America and work hard you might be something" atitude it's more like "I'm an American and I can to what ever I want" atitude. And it's coming out of our kids. |
Watch it there, Ted Bundy....   So what's the answer to living life? Drive drive drive all the time? We aren't perfect, and some of what you say is true, but I can't see living life if all I am doing is working all the time. ETA: FTR???? Geometry blows..in Chinese as well as English! 
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The Chinese math problem isn't really that hard. A US sophomore HS student in Advanced Trig will easily handle that problem. |
THE UNDERCOVER ARFCOM LIBERAL DON'T YOU WORRY JACK DANIELS MAKES ME SEE WHATS INSIDE EVERYONE AND I SEE SICKLES AND HAMMERS AND HEMOPRRHOIDS IN SIDE OF OYU. |
We don't teach out kids to live IN a box, so they don't think that way. Thats why WE innovate, and they are cheap labor. |
The pretty lady gets it. 
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