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Chinese Students' Cheating Techniques - Don't Try at Home
corbettw writes "According to a wire report on Yahoo! news, competition for university admissions in China are so intense that people are coming up with new, and sometimes dangerous, ways to cheat. The methods include microscopic earphones and wireless devices. In some cases, students are required surgery to recover from their cheating attempts. If there are that many people that desperate to get into a university, the obvious question would be, why don't they just open more schools?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist....
"... why don't they just open more schools?"
It's easy to understand that an American would have a lack of appreciation of Chinese culture. Chinese culture often insists on being self-defeating.
The U.S. culture is extremely self-defeating, too, of course. What purpose is there in taking over from Saddam Hussein in killing Iraqis (other than to make those with weapons and oil investments rich)? The U.S. has a higher percentage of its people in prison than any nation in the history of the world. The U.S. has invaded 24 countries since the end of the Second World War.
But the Chinese culture is even more self-defeating than that. There is a movie made in Hong Kong in which self-defeat is the theme. I don't remember the title. A family sacrificed to send their boy to university, when he didn't want to study, and their daughter was an excellent student.
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U.S. Taxpayer Karma: If you contribute money to kill people, expect your own quality of life to diminish.
There are certain walks of life where this should be true. If a student in, say, a business school that produces several CEOs can't manage to cheat successfully while being watched, they'll never make it when they need to do the unethical things that need done in the real world.
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But it might just have been a plumber spreading FUD.
Blar.