China Segment

There is a shitload of public urination going on in Shanghai. (Pardon the pun that doesn’t quite work.) Children go absolutely everywhere, even to the point of being held up by their mothers and fathers to pee over sewers, garbage bins or eve just a crack in the sidewalk. I’m not quite [...]

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Imagine preparing for the Olympics from when you were four.
Now take that Olympics, and turn it into, say, a series of tests you need to take in competition with about 10 million other high school students in order to gain entrance into university.
Add unreasonable pressure and expectations from parents and relatives who are counting on [...]

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It seems that some people in China don’t really have a childhood. Forced to hit the books hard from an early age in order to get into the best schools and prepare for the university entrance exams (高考), children here don’t have a lot of time to just have fun and be kids. [...]

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Yes, China has 5000 years of history… and it is still immature. From its leadership down to the average mother or child. How so? A warning, as I am about to generalize about a great many things. My examples:

Hitting a person (be they child, husband, wife or friend) seems to be [...]

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Today while standing on a street corner I saw a young (30ish) father and his daughter waiting alongside me.  The father reached back and hacked up a good ol’ spit.  The daughter, watching the Dad, immediately spit as well, though without the preceding lung-clearing action.  She then looked up at Dad, admiringly, just screaming with [...]

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