Posts Tagged ‘university’
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The migrant worker says the the university student: You spent money to go to college, yet your income is the same as me who did not go to college!
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There must be more to this story, but ironically I find this cartoon very funny! Workers earning the same as university grads. Mao would be happy. We see this happen here as well. Friends here in Toronto, Canada have been telling me that trades and construction workers are doing well, but university grads are starving for jobs. One hopes that education will return as being valued by employers. When I cannot say.
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Tags: Canada, China, migrant worker, student, Toronto, university, wages, worker
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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During the time I spent in Beijing as a student, cozily nestled amongst Chinese students, eating at their same cafeterias and freely visiting their dorms, I did not once see any violent actions. From my personal account, this protest was 100% non-violent, which makes the very violent response from the government all the more terrible.
When students were on campus milling about at Sanjiao Di (3 Corner Place) or other places, reading or putting up posters, discussing, organizing, there was excitement in the air. Students shouting slogans, crowding around certain people, then moving on to crowd around other people. I did not once see anyone fighting. This is surprising in that when I travel in China, there is always some small fight that I witness on the road, with pushing and shoving, and shouting from both parties. I expect this in China.
Tags: 6-4, guns, PLA, protesters, soldiers, student, Tiananmen, university
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Can you fit 1 million people into Tiananmen Square?
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Some topics are so foreign to Westerners that to encounter something so blatantly different is like running head first into a brick wall. Such is the case for modern Chinese history. I talk specifically about the student movement of May 4 1989 in Tiananmen Square
I am torn by writing because I have contradictory feelings at odds with each other. On one hand there is undisputable proof from eyewitness accounts and news footage that the events did occur and many people were killed. On the other hand, it was 20 years ago, so why bring up such an old and tired topic.
Tags: 6-4, Beijing, history, naive, party, protest, students, Tiananmen, university
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
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There are some government social systems that affect society so profoundly that without it we would be much worse off. In Canada, I would recommend our universal healthcare system. China’s hukou system is the mirror opposite, a tool to suppress and control the movements of China’s rural population.
Tags: army, China, education, farmer, hukou, PLA, rural, suppress, university
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