Seriously, its paradise on earth, study harder.. thats bs, you just need to be
unique, to do something that no other has done to make it, true than YOU must do hard work to achieve that dream, but seriously, are all the kids in rural areas of china that sad, there views of grandeur in the city is miss justified.
What you say reminds me of something I saw in another documentary; I think it was China Rises from Discovery. A young man whose hand was amputated while working at a stuffed animal factory says that outsiders think that the Chinese countryside is beautiful, and that's because they don't actually work there.
My dad couldn't live in the city when he was younger because of the hukou system. People registered where they lived, and this registration was meant to restrict movement. City dwellers were generally free to go where they wanted, peasants were cemented to their hukou area.
It may look like a lovely, relaxing place, but think about how limited the opportunities are, how limited the experience is to be stuck in a tiny village. What chance is there to be unique? The city has its own problems, but it also has a much richer (in both senses) experience.
30 years from now (if it's not happening already) rich people from the city will be buying up farms in the Chinese countryside (because it is beautiful) and moving out there to escape the ugliness of the cities. Maybe a few people will have some foresight today and stay in their lovely, rich, rural environments. People are unique no matter where they live.
shareA long time ago I read an account of a person who visited in Aspen and other mountain areas in Colorado. The ranchers in the area had sold out to ski resort developers. He talked to an old rancher who had lived there during the Depression and all sorts of hardships before tourists came.
He asked the man how the younger people could bear to leave. the rancher said "You can't eat scenery."
Exactly. The rural environments may be "lovely" and "rich" as the poster before you said, but these are adjectives that are only important if you have at least a leisure class standard of living. Otherwise, poverty and inequality--not of a a self-imposed variety that a certain class of Americans are familiar with--are somewhat more important features of day to day life.
shareYes. One of the big problems with living in the countryside is that there are not enough jobs. There is a greater population than the US but less arable land to farm => problem.
shareExactly, land value has little to do with how great it might be to live, it's mostly about work availablity. It's also even hard to retire at a place like that, because it's so far away from decent medical care.
shareThe cities are fast becoming more beautiful, and cleaner, too. But eventually yes, the countryside will become resorts, if not engines of growth.
shareIt's hard physical labor to have just enough to eat. Most teens drop out of school to work in the factories, all the parents seem to work in the cities, so it's only grandparents and young children. The villages are dying. No matter how pretty the view, that's depressing.
sharesad as hell. Study hard and work hard just doesn't exist in China b/c its so competitive. Middle class Chinese students study like 10 hours a day. What can the rural kids do...
American high school students just finish homework and call it a day.
Learn how to spell words properly, it's quite easy.
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