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One Child Policy Detailed Study

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TrueTears:
I will give you a summary of what I know about your questions, you should follow them up and research deeper into them.

1. Chinese families used to be very big, 1 - 2 generations of the same family would live in the "same" household. This, ofcourse, passes down many family values from one generation to the next and thus creates an environment in which the family would adopt the same traditions for future generations.

2. Most Chinese parents set very high standards for their children, these mainly include school (academics), music and sports. Thus a lot of pressure is put on children (especially for single children) from their parents to encourage them to beat other children in whatever areas they want them to excel in.

3. "Saving face" means “别丢脸” in Chinese. This literally means "don't lose face", but it actually means to avoid embarassment. An example would be a number one student always getting 1st place in exams but got 5th place once, he/she would then study harder so they can "save face".

4. This I'm not quite sure of because I haven't researched this part much for my detailed study, you should check this with your teacher.

5. Nowadays more and more students are striving for a better education (1 reason is due to the single child policy, where parents want their children to excel in everything). As a result the competition to get into universities are much greater than before. Therefore people will have much more pressure exerted on them to get into the universities they wish to attend.

I hope that helps :)

chuckjefster90:
yeah thanks alot

btw how hard wud it be to get a 30 SS in SL?

TrueTears:
Depends on the effort you put in, you reap what you sow. But in general, my friend did almost nothing in SL last year and got 34 lol. [But he was a native speaker... so... owned the oral without much effort put into it]

monokekie:

--- Quote from: Mao on August 03, 2009, 09:08:35 am ---

I love communism..

--- End quote ---

mao zhu xi 万岁

Mao:
4. How do young people in china view job opportunities, relations with opposite sex, and marriage?

The following are anecdotal:

Job opportunities: kids will study whatever qualification that will get them the best social status, i.e. money, power and social position.

Relationships/marriages: kids do NOT introduce their high-school sweethearts to their parents, until well into university, their relationships usually are life-long commitments (years at least). The popular ones tend to be those with good academics, i.e. partners that will have good jobs in the future, the ones with good family background (i.e. rich kids, government officials' kids, etc) are also quite popular, since they pretty much are secure for the rest of their life not only because of family savings, but also because of the social network their parents have built that guarantees them a good job and good social position.

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