Jeoh posted:

https://twitter.com/ChuBailiang/status/710458263238606848

A great loss for Chinese penises everywhere.

Irradiation posted:

Oregon State is more than happy to take foreign money and shove unqualified people through a program.

angel opportunity posted:

I think it's very cool he threw it back in. We should give guys like that a pat on the back for being good human beings

Fojar38 posted:

did any of the chinese tourists express any interest in how the us government functions or did they just want pictures next to things they saw on house of cards

Irradiation posted:

Oregon State is more than happy to take foreign money and shove unqualified people through a program.

Blistex posted:

My wife was just telling me that her cousin (rich aunt and uncle's daughter) is going to go to the US to get a degree. She's rich, she knows it, and thus never bothered to apply herself in school, and bombed the Chinese SAT's, so there is pretty much no hope of her getting into a decent university there (they're rich, but not "Coal Boss" rich). So the rich aunt asked my wife to ask me what were some good US universities that she could go to. My first question was, "Why bother sending her to a University for 4 years in the US if she can almost literally not speak anything more than "hello" and count to ten?" (her father has already made arrangements for her to work in a moderately high position in the Nickel mine he is a manager in).

Their reply was that she needs a US degree. . .

So I'm debating whether or not I should tell them to send her to one of those diploma mill places where she is 100% going to get a diploma if the cheque clears, or say, "Anything less than Harvard, Princeton or Yale is unacceptable".

Suggestions? (legit or comedy option)

Blistex posted:

Suggestions? (legit or comedy option)

etalian posted:

All US state schools do this since the lovely state governments underfund higher education and they can charge a Chinese student 4-5x the in-state rate.

The Great Autismo! posted:

With all due respect there are much better more prestigious universities that will do this

Haier posted:

Longshot007 posted:

You could tell that they pretty much had no idea what was going on. They seemed really confused as to why there was a Lincoln memorial and snapped a few shots of the statue before wandering off. My girlfriend and I were walking towards the memorial at one point and this older Chinese lady saw us and grabbed her kid to pull him away like we were going to eat him or something.

Edit: We also walked past several people pushing that Falun gong or whatever it was called stuff in Chinese. I never actually saw anyone talking to those people though.

Blistex posted:

One of my Chinese co-workers asked me to take photos of her in her underwear so she could see if she had a flat but. . . like one week after we met.

Mechafunkzilla posted:

She was trying to have sex with you hth

Irradiation posted:

Oh I know. But Oregon State was one of the ones specifically called out in this article that someone linked earlier. http://www.wsj.com/articles/heavy-recruitment-of-chinese-students-sows-discord-on-u-s-campuses-1458224413


No offense taken.

Tequila Sunrise posted:

I would stay the course. Full steam ahead.

The White Dragon posted:

if blistex didn't have a ring on it, i would encourage him to plunge in headfirst

Blistex posted:

My wife was just telling me that her cousin (rich aunt and uncle's daughter) is going to go to the US to get a degree. She's rich, she knows it, and thus never bothered to apply herself in school, and bombed the Chinese SAT's, so there is pretty much no hope of her getting into a decent university there (they're rich, but not "Coal Boss" rich). So the rich aunt asked my wife to ask me what were some good US universities that she could go to. My first question was, "Why bother sending her to a University for 4 years in the US if she can almost literally not speak anything more than "hello" and count to ten?" (her father has already made arrangements for her to work in a moderately high position in the Nickel mine he is a manager in).

Their reply was that she needs a US degree. . .

So I'm debating whether or not I should tell them to send her to one of those diploma mill places where she is 100% going to get a diploma if the cheque clears, or say, "Anything less than Harvard, Princeton or Yale is unacceptable".

Suggestions? (legit or comedy option)

etalian posted:

I like this graph, randomly around 2008/2009 chinese got the idea that US uni degree is a must have.

LentThem posted:

I think the answer to this (but I haven't found it yet) is going to be that around 2008/2009 some Chinese company or businessman became wildly successful and popular in China as the kind of person everyone should be, and he studied abroad when he was younger; maybe even suggested it directly in an interview. Like the Alibaba guy (Jack Ma didnt study abroad, but someone similar). Maybe someone in finance like a Warren Buffet type.

Sure it probably feels like I'm oversimplifying things by attributing this to one person, but this is absolutely how it works here - everything is vapor bandwagons

quote:

The book spawned a genre, selling more than two million copies in China on the premise that any child, with the proper upbringing, could be Ivy League material.

Now, eight years after the publication of "Harvard Girl," bookstore shelves here are laden with copycat titles like "How We Got Our Child Into Yale," "Harvard Family Instruction" and "The Door of the Elite."

Their increasing popularity points to the preoccupation - some might say a single-minded national obsession - of a growing number of middle-class Chinese parents: getting their children into America's premier universities.

Because government policy allows families only one child, many parents feel immense pressure to groom their sons and daughters for success and, in the process, prepare a comfortable retirement for themselves. They fervently mine the expanding volumes of child-rearing manuals - "Stanford's Silver Bullet," "Yale Girl," "Creed of Harvard" - for tips on producing what the Chinese term "high-quality" children.

"Harvard Girl," written by the parents of one of the first Chinese undergraduates to enter the university on a full scholarship, chronicled Liu Yiting's methodical upbringing, which the book says instilled the discipline and diligence necessary for academic success. The tome has a place in many urban households with high school-age children, and new parents receive the book as a present from family and friends.

"Going to Harvard means that the way they raised their child was successful," said Yang Kui, publisher of the best seller. "People are willing to copy and learn how they did it."

The book, which features a photo on the cover of Liu posing with her admission letter to Harvard, espoused unconventional techniques for turning out an Ivy-caliber child. Liu's parents challenged the young girl to hold ice in her hands for as long as she could bear it to improve her endurance and made her jump rope every day for increasingly longer periods until she won a school contest.

They put toys out of her grasp when she was a baby to make her work harder for them, timed the girl's studies to the minute as soon as she entered elementary school and made her do school work in the noisiest part of the house to develop her ability to concentrate.

"It's a very Chinese kind of method. It's hard for Americans to understand," said Zhongrui Yin, a sophomore at Harvard whose own mother, Sharon, is about to release "From Andover to Harvard," which tells how his acceptance on scholarship to Phillips Academy, a residential private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, was a steppingstone to the elite university.

Sheep-Goats posted:

I think it's more likely to be US universities increasing advertising and Chinese retard storage space in that period and then reaching saturation at 30% than is n words doing it for themselves.

quote:

One of the reasons for a positive wobble in overseas
applications to America during and after the 2009/2010 year, for example, was because the UKBA briefly froze
all Tier 4 visa application from China. It has only been in the past year or two that applicant numbers to the UK
have climbed above that level. I like the history section, but the numbers need a lot of work if they are going to
be accurate. There are several full studies on the topic of international students and student mobility across the
world – anyone with access to an online academic library should be able to get hold of these if you want to
explore the subject further. There are also a range of reports and publications by groups like HESA and UKCISA
which are free to download.

Blistex posted:

My wife was just telling me that her cousin (rich aunt and uncle's daughter) is going to go to the US to get a degree. She's rich, she knows it, and thus never bothered to apply herself in school, and bombed the Chinese SAT's, so there is pretty much no hope of her getting into a decent university there (they're rich, but not "Coal Boss" rich). So the rich aunt asked my wife to ask me what were some good US universities that she could go to. My first question was, "Why bother sending her to a University for 4 years in the US if she can almost literally not speak anything more than "hello" and count to ten?" (her father has already made arrangements for her to work in a moderately high position in the Nickel mine he is a manager in).

Their reply was that she needs a US degree. . .

So I'm debating whether or not I should tell them to send her to one of those diploma mill places where she is 100% going to get a diploma if the cheque clears, or say, "Anything less than Harvard, Princeton or Yale is unacceptable".

Suggestions? (legit or comedy option)

LentThem posted:

hm, it did happen but 9 years earlier than I thought, so not sure about the 2009 kick unless that's when the mom's interview came out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/world/asia/04iht-ivy.1.19063547.html