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"Boogeyman"

Has he gone? He was our #3 poster for a while I think.

Well... He brought the posts in eh?

Kawada wrote:

> I was only in the city, i'm pretty certain the more rural you go
> the less English will be spoken

Yes I thought that would be the case. The program I told you about it went on about the rural families sending the boys off to go study and the sisters and the parents would carry on working to support him while he's studying.

> Well English is easier to learn so it makes sense they'd learn
> it rather than us learning Chinese, especially when the
> international business language is English as well.

Yes, I also saw another article on youtube about American schools offering more classes in Mandarin. Probably not on par with Spanish which I find to be one of the most easiest of languages. I don't think American students would cope well with Mandarin.

> It really, it's always good to be able to speak other languages

Well yes of course, that's why I'd love to bring up my kids bilingual or even trilingual. I wish I had the option.

Well after living there for 6 months i can tell you it isn't the norm. I knew plenty of people who were what we would call working/middle class. Not poor but not wealthy either, enough to get by and enough to have some fun with

Cruciatum Fixative wrote:
> Well... He brought the posts in eh?

See what I mean? 261 now I think, and it's only going to get higher. Well done Boogeyman :-D

Also it's always on the TV about how they are buying up all our waste just to try and sustain their economcis boom, which I am also studying in my economcis lessons :)

Well when I went to china thats what I saw. And when we travelled onto Hong Kong you could see that Hong Kong was changing to be more like China e.g. one street was full of millionaires and the flats were full of people on really bad pay :(

Boogeyman wrote:
> Well there is a big diversity in their culture, half of them are
> exceedingly poor and the other half really wealthy

Again, wrong.

It's kinda expected off of parents, when I have kids i'll do everything I can to make sure they have a better life and chance of succeeding than me, it's only natural :)

Machie wrote:
> Wow that's tough, what day did they get off? I don't think any
> of the kids here could go through all that. Isn't all this after
> school stuff expensive too?


Meant to have Sunday off but they still have the extra-curricular stuff although only a few things (my kids would usually only have my class and then a sports class or music class)

And i guess the parents are prepared to pay for it to make sure their kids have the best chance in life.

Well there is a big diversity in their culture, half of them are exceedingly poor and the other half really wealthy, more bentleys are sold in china than in teh rest of the world, put together, fact :)

Boogeyman wrote:
> Yeah business in china is booming, they have the most wealthy
> people in the world there :)

No they don't