Would you let your junior college student study abroad in Shanghai or Hong Kong next year?
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Anonymous
Taiwan is a much better option than China, by a long shot |
Anonymous
I can’t say you are completely wrong but it’s really too bad. We lived in China for many years and it was a great experience. We left a couple years ago. |
Anonymous
No, a midde aged child of Xian and Taiwan who also spent time working in Hong Kong. I was doing a yoga class in Central Park today and thought about all the lack of greenery back there. The few lawns there were are bald parches of flat green that no one is supposed to step foot on and hiked up way above pavement level. The Philipina amahs spend their one day a week off camped out in the concrete beneath HSBC bank building or whatever few free public spaces there are. Yes, one should spend some time in foreign countries. There are things to appreciate and blanch at on both sides of the Pacific. |
Anonymous
Sure Taiwan is functioning. The fit fights at the legislature are a daily occurrence. The rely on Japan for infrastructure technology and the inly game it has is TSMC. Without TSMC, Taiwan is in trouble. |
Anonymous
Unlike Americans, the Chinese are able to differentiate between people and a country's politics. China's only been communist for 50 years and most Chinese are not members of the party. |
Anonymous
I’m an American, and I think we’ll somehow get the Trump problem under control, but I think you’re right to be nervous about sending your children to the United States, and I think Americans have to be extra thoughtful about sending our kids abroad. We might all be lovely people. We might all live in same places where most people are kind to students and serious problems are rare. But Trump is doing so many crazy, infuriating things that it’s hard to know what the limits of insanity are or how people will react. Sending students across borders for college today is not the same move as in 2023. Chances are that most students will be physically safe, but we’re seeing Trump screwing Fulbright grant recipients over mid-semester. He’s just not someone who cares whether your kid is one term paper away from passing a class. He’ll cheerfully deport students and start shooting wars while our kids are in the middle of final exams in the countries under attack. He’ll cheerfully have goons smash the your kid’s lab rats. So, your kid might be fine, but who wants to put up with all of that chaos while you’re studying? |
Anonymous
The risk of Taiwan being invaded is much higher now than it used to be. |
Anonymous
75 years. The existence of anti-japanese riots suggests you may be wrong about other things, too. |
Anonymous
This is indeed wildly simplistic. There is considerable racial and nationalistic animosity in China. “ A 10-year-old Japanese student has died one day after he was stabbed near his school in southern China. The boy, who was enrolled at the Shenzhen Japanese School, succumbed to his injuries early on Thursday, Japanese officials said. His assailant, a 44-year-old man surnamed Zhong, was arrested on the spot, local police said. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has called the attack "extremely despicable" and said Tokyo had "strongly urged" Beijing for an explanation "as soon as possible". Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said the case was being investigated and that China and Japan were "in communication". "China expresses its regret and sadness that this kind of unfortunate incident occurred," he told reporters at a news conference on Thursday. Mr Lin also confirmed that the boy was a Japanese national with a Japanese father and a Chinese mother. The motive for the attack was not immediately known. But some observers have expressed concern that nationalist sentiment in China might be spilling into increasing violence against foreigners. In June, a man targeted a Japanese mother and her child in the eastern city of Suzhou. That attack was also near a Japanese school and led to the death of a Chinese national who had tried to protect the mother and son. Earlier in June, four American teachers were stabbed in the northern city of Jilin. Beijing has described all of these attacks - including the one on Wednesday - as "isolated incidents". And on Wednesday, Mr Lin said China would continue "to protect the safety of all foreigners in the country". The Japanese embassy in Beijing called on the Chinese government to "prevent such incidents from happening again". Some have pointed out that the stabbing happened on the anniversary of the notorious Mukden Incident, when Japan faked an explosion to justify its invasion of Manchuria in 1931, triggering a 14-year war with China.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy94qq01qweo |
Anonymous
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Read “Other Rivers” by Peter Hessler for a recent (2024) account of a joint US-China college program from the perspective of a professor.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199347135-other-rivers |
Anonymous
This is just not true. And I live in Singapore. |
Anonymous
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I understand the concern but there’s very little knowledge of China. I didn’t want to read every page of this post but the first two pages showed a lot of bias.
If your kid goes he shouldn’t do any drugs or anything illegal.But the same is true for international students studying here. Kids are getting deported for having a fake id. Students are being turned away at the border. I went to visit DD at Harvard last weekend and there was an active shooter in the square. So which country is more safe? China has many surveillance cameras and while it may be invasive it keeps the everyday citizen very safe! The food is amazing. The transport between the big cities fast and easy. Maybe you should look at some TikTok’s and search foreigner in China. |
Anonymous
| Some of yall haven’t seen Brokedown Palace and it shows. No I would not send my teenager over there. |
Anonymous
| I would say it depends on a variety of factors. It is an incredible opportunity and experience for the kid, but do they have the tenacity or stomach for it? Do the parents?. Are many other students from their school also going to this location, or is your kid one of a few/going alone? Having someone that far away with little to no support system close by is a tough call for both parents and the kid. God forbid something happens - it's not like you can just hop on a plane and be there in a couple of hours, and if there is no local support, it will be even harder. Does your kid adapt easily, or do they get stressed? Asia is not like Western cultures, so in addition to the standard adjustments (time zone, language) they will need to adapt to a completely different way of life in a short amount of time. For us, we decided against it because we preferred to travel to these areas first for shorter, more controlled visits as opposed to a 5 month commitment for our kid alone. We decided on Europe for a few reasons - it was closer in case something happened, many other kids were also going so our kid would have some measure of local support, travel between countries in Europe is cheaper and relatively easy to manage (which allows the kid to explore many different countries over the course of the semester) and support in most European countries is pretty good (health care, police, etc). |
Anonymous
This such a basic mindset but you do you |