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AssassinsMace

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Biscuits said:
Well, the extreme ideas presented in for example books like Tiger Mom are uniquely American. You don't find it in Asia, you could maybe say it is an American idea of what succesful Asian parenting would be like, much like how orange chicken is an American idea of what Asian food is like.

What makes the biggest difference when it comes to educating children is not valuing academics or not, it is about having a safe home situation where children are allowed to explore their interests.

Top tier American homes, I.e. The ones that are the source of their inflated gdp/capita, own their own housing, have servants, inherited old money etc. They push their kids really hard so they can become good inheritors. In China, to get a high level education you mostly just have to prepare well for a general university exam which you can retake as many times you want. While America doesn't just demand high scores, but even seemingly unrelated "competencies" such as sports, parent connections and music. As far as I know, US is the only country with that much emphasis on it. So you can make a pretty strong argument that US elites have a stronger drive than Chinese elites.

But, most kids are not the top 3% wealth families. And when you look at Chinese and American households there, it is a huge difference. Compare divorce rates, poverty rates, people living paycheck to paycheck, parents with drug abuse, criminality etc. Most American kids can't catch up to Chinese ones not because they don't dream as big due to ideological reasons, but because they literally can't dream big when survival, taking care of siblings, bad home situation and so on force them to devote their energy into day to day living rather than their personal goals.

It is not a coincidence that the only western country on par with China when it comes to education is Finland, an unassuming country with nothing special about it, but one whose domestic policies emphazise solidarity.

People from capitalist societies that believe in "great men" theory think that the only way to get more educated kids is pushing them to their indivudal limit. Americans are pushing their kids until a ton of them develop mental health issues, then they see China sprinting ahead and assume China is pushing them even more. But if you think about it, 90% of scientists aren't from rich backgrounds and they didn't have access to extracurriculars. Theyre just from normal families and were able to develop their interests because they had a free environment to do so in.
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Yes the author went to China to sell her book and they thought it was a foreign concept but since it was "successful" they were intrigued by it.
 
ficker22

ficker22

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ansy1968 said:
Bro will Germany disintegrate as it's a federation of different state?
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Unlikely, we dont have much localism here anymore, since the prussians and hitler did a good job unifying all germans under one flag.

Notable exceptions are some bavarians and the new (ex-gdr) states, where some people get pissed (understandably) at the current federal government.
 
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ansy1968

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ficker22 said:
Unlikely, we dont have much localism here anymore, since the prussians and hitler did a good job unifying all germans under one flag.

Notable exceptions are some bavarians and the new (ex-gdr) states, where some people get pissed (understandably) at the current federal government.
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Thanks brother, so the pacification of both Axis power had been successful, the Americans are master colonizer better than the Chinese cultural assimilation.
 
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Peas said:
US has many militrary base in Germany.
Some of Germans believe they are necessary because they promotes the local economy development.
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Germany is more of an occupied country. Similar to Japan.

Kicking them out peacefully could be the greatest achievement for a German Chancellor. Merkel had the chance to do it with Trump but unfortunately she didnt grasp that rare opportunity
 
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Karma works in a weird way, lots of jerks in some of the western military subs were cheering or laughing at the type75 that caught on fire a couple weeks prior. Then the USS Richard caught on fire and they were coping/hoping it was a russian or chinese sabotage.... but nope, it wasn't even from some safety failure but from a allege disgruntled sailor who failed getting into the elite navy seals.
 
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