Haier posted:

Either way, it's dumb armchair bs.

Accretionist posted:

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Barack Obama’s ‘Asian pivot’ failed. China is in the ascendancy

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More than 1 million people died from dirty air in one year, according to World Health Organisation

Away all Goats posted:

china doesn't give a poo poo about japans lovely little fleet either. There is one reason and one reason only China isn't gobbling up every little island in the pacific and why most of the world isnt complete poo poo

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Is China’s gaokao the world’s toughest school exam?

Chinese children must endure years of stress and impossible expectations preparing for their final school exam. The students who do best can look forward to glittering careers and even good marriage prospects. But for the less successful, the system is brutal

With so much to gain or lose, cheating is a big problem. Spy cameras, radio devices and earpieces that transmit questions and receive answers have been found hidden in jewellery, spectacles, wallets, pens, rulers and underwear. Most examination rooms install CCTV cameras, and some use metal detectors. Last year, police busted a syndicate in Jiangxi province, where professional exam-takers were charging parents up to a million yuan (£121,300) to pose as students. In Luoyang, a city in Henan province, examiners deployed a drone to hover above school buildings and scan for radio signals sent in or out. Fingerprint and iris-matching has been used to verify the identity of students. Exam papers are escorted to schools by security guards and monitored with GPS trackers, while the examiners who draft them are kept under close scrutiny in order to avoid leaks. This year, new regulations came into effect that could sentence cheats to up to seven years in prison.

The gaokao is emblematic of the Chinese education system as a whole. In the west, it is often seen as monolithic and rote; in China as tough but fair. In Europe and America, there is the notion that Chinese schools produce automatons incapable of critical thought; in China, many seem to think that western classrooms are full of students standing on desks and ripping up textbooks, à la Dead Poets Society. Yet, where the Chinese model used to be roundly criticised for rewarding rote learning, now the system’s gruelling schedule and supposed high standards are increasingly admired overseas. Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, has praised Shanghai’s school system with at times absurd hyperbole. (One column was fawningly titled “The Shanghai Secret”.) Last year, the BBC invited two Chinese teachers to take over a sixth-form class in the documentary Are Our Kids Tough Enough? (Spoiler: they weren’t, but nor were the teachers.)

The gaokao is made up of four three-hour papers: Chinese, English, maths and a choice of either sciences (biology, chemistry, physics) or humanities (geography, history, politics). The questions are mostly multiple-choice or fill-in-the-gap, and are notoriously hard – the maths paper has been compared to university-level maths in the UK. But for many students, the most intimidating element is the essay in the Chinese exam. Students are given an hour to write on one of two prompts, which are often infuriatingly elliptical. Prompts in 2015 included “Do butterfly wings have colours?” and “Who do you admire the most? A biotechnology researcher, a welding engineering technician or a photographer?”. This summer, Yuan Qi’s choice was between “Old accent” and “Mysterious bookmark”. (He picked old accent.)

Blue Star Error posted:

oohhboy posted:

Have some Typhoon Gweilo

Sheep-Goats posted:

Despite recent history if anyone is seriously arguing that the Philippines is better off getting into bed with China than America, or that that would somehow be less disgusting, they've got their head jammed way up their rear end.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

that guys a retarded tankie who genuinely thinks north korea is cool and good

paperchaseguy posted:

soylent chinese is made from people!

serious norman posted:

Im 40 and i live in moms basement

nickmeister posted:

It's pretty funny they didn't think to try to make it convincing. I mean, that's the way it would have worked in China, right? Whenever someone sees someone cheating or otherwise breaking the rules, they just look the other way?

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The decision was highly debated; some argued that while the teams have not been performing their best effort to win the game at hand, they had been in fact doing their best to win the tournament, and that conserving resources in early matches is a common practice in every competitive sport.

oohhboy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMqmKm6vsd0

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A housing loan application submitted by a man in Zhengzhou, Henan province was recently rejected - a not altogether unusual occurence.
However, what sets this man's case apart is the reason his loan was denied: because Wu Jianping has no arms, creditors claimed they could not give him a loan since he was unable to be fingerprinted.

The 25-year-old Wu lost both his arms after receiving a severe electric shock at the age of 5. He manages to write his signature by holding a pen in his mouth. However, he was rejected by several banks when applying for a loan in Zhengzhou on Nov 14 because he could not provide fingerprints.

Bank employees argued that without fingerprint, a mere signature would not be legally binding.

The Great Autismo! posted:

Caberham is right the system was prone to abuse, it's just that the teams did it with zero nuance or subtlety. At all. Period.

It would be like instead of stalling in soccer by simply passing the ball around, you went to the corner of the field and made a semi circle around the end line and had one player lay on top of the ball inside the semi circle for 90 minutes

Haier posted:

ladron posted:

I am a child

The Great Autismo! posted:

I'm gearing up for about 20 hours of traveling and am going to try to crank it out on the plane

Haier posted:

Saw a porn gif on reddit. Had Chinese words on it and an address. Typed it in just to have a look.

L
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NSFW
http://i.imgur.com/fsW0M8o.png

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The gif in question, mannequin challenge sex.
https://gfycat.com/FloweryNeglectedChameleon

rear end cobra posted:

Tried to find out more about face culture and I liked this story

Blistex posted:

<Drinks TCM "stay awake" tea, plows into stopped cars while dreaming about post-90's beauties>


That, face, and the belief that all non-Han people are subhuman retards who will never catch on to their inscrutable ways.

Sheep-Goats posted:

If you're learning a language other than English it should be for cultural reasons (you want to read Goethe in the original or whatever), issues of convenience (you live there and want to be able to talk to people), or as a hobby. So yeah that's fine. Probably not much reward for the effort but if it's worth the work to her then fine.

Also just spoken conversational Mandarin really isn't a terrible about of work to put in.

Atlas Hugged posted:

I was out drinking with some of the other Bangkok goons as we are wont to do when one of the 140 teachers we had on staff recognized me and decided to hangout. I could barely even remember who this guy was but he got it into his head that one of my goon friends needed to get laid immediately. So he got his phone out and called in one of the girls he knows. He told this goon not to worry, that he'd pay for everything, and to just enjoy himself. My friend panicked, and being a goon, had no idea how to get himself out of the situation.

So he did the first most logical thing that popped into his brain.

He punched me in the face.

The girl at this point wanted nothing to do with the crazy violent farang and the teacher figuring he was paying for it anyway took the girl and left.

nickmeister posted:

I'm trying to understand why they would continue the scam for four years? Did they actually have fake classes for four years? That seems like a big risk for about 80 grand USD a year.

Bardeh posted:

What did that tweet say? Looks like it's been deleted

Fojar38 posted:

the truth is that running is a big deal as a sport in some countries and so they produce really good runners hth