Before comming to China and seeing how things really operate here, I thought that China would be the next superpower or the 21st century would be China's century.
China will be a superpower in Asia and a world player, but the way they study, do business, etc. will not make this country a world class anything, ecept in producing cheap garbage and plagarism. I say this with sadness and not satisfaction for I see great potential in so many of my students. When I visited Hong Kong I read a book called Made in China about the shoddy business practices here and other unethical things. Chinese students, while many brilliant still take others' work even in other countries. My uncle, a Ph.d. in physics from Rice University, almost strangled a CHinese student for leafing over his notes- for what purpose, I can only guess. The word is getting out and China has to clean this up. As much as China grows strong, the rest of the world still outnumbers them 4.5 billion to their 1.5 billion. I tell all my friends back home- buy local and put the "Made in China" things back on the shelf until things change here. I write an on-line article and my teacher colleagues are telling me to just "forget" certain things. Sorry, but they are what they are and I will write about them.