Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese Human Compassion Yes Maley that was a great experiment to show how people in the world are changing their values and priorities.
Billdan if you read my post you can find the answer: urbanization.
Urbanization brings people to ignore their neighbors, that happens in every part of the world, western cities were the first to experience it, so people over there got used to lack of compassion and attention for everything that is not closely related to their lives.
Chinese cities started their urbanization process much later so their citizens still keep a sense of solidarity that nowadays in the west is common just in small centers,but the chinese fa zhan process is making the two world more and more similar.
Lack of compassion cannot be related to a culture because populations, especially in cities, are losing their roots to gain globalization.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Coloradans and guns the funny thing is that in the world only Americans are pro-guns and not even all of them, but reading these comments it seems that anti guns are just a bunch of nuts...you guys pro guns living overseas don't you feel embarrassed to be the only ones in the world with this kind of law?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Coloradans and guns The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American non-profit 501(c)(4) lobbying group[1][2] that advocates for the protection of the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights, and the promotion of firearm ownership rights as well as marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection of hunting and self-defense in the United States.
According to a 1999 Fortune survey, lawmakers and congressional staffers considered NRA the most influential lobbying group [www.wikipedia.org]
That's a big reason why guns are not banned yet in America.
The American Constitution was written in 1789 (!).
About the comparisons between chinese and american assaults look at this video
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Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese Human Compassion In western world there is generally less attention (and compassion) for strangers than in china.
In the west poor people dies every day in the streets because of lack of food/clothes/health assistance etc without any form of compassion from passengers. That has nothing to do with culture but it's due to the massive urbanization that started long time before china and made people used to these sad events.
Chinese cities are urbanizing faster and in terms of lack of compassion many of them can compete with places like paris, london or new york, kunming is still on his way...
Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese Human Compassion first:
are you sure that in the rest of the world people help strangers? do you wanna talk about rapes, robberies and verbal violence in the subways (SUBWAYS) of london, paris, new york under a big silent crowd?
second: i've seen people helping strangers also in kunming, and I often see people picking up and giving back objects or money when somebody drops them by mistake, something not common in big western cities.
third: people living in a foreign country are usually more sensitive to help and compassion, the same chinese who doesn't help strangers would maybe do it in a different country (it happened to me many times back home to be helped by foreigners and not by locals).
The reality is that in the western world is now common no paying attention to strangers, in trouble or not, (there was a great video of a famous violinist who was playing in the street in NY for a social experiment and just few few people recognized him), so no news cover the daily cases of lack of compassion but even though china is changing compassion is still a value so news give more space.
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Kunming educator finalist for Global Teacher Prize
Posted by@fixit we are getting far from the point, I'm not saying that a teacher should only spend time with good students, I'm saying that the teacher should use his experience to advice all students according to their ability..if somebody is struggling with business but it's better in art why wasting time teaching him business? failing him has not to be intended as a shame but more as a service, closing some doors to be able to open others. teacher s ability shouldnt be measured by the amount of people he passes/fails but more about how good he is in showing a future successful path for his students.
Kunming educator finalist for Global Teacher Prize
Posted by@fixit now i understand why we have different views. in my opinion excellence is everything, one beethoven can inspire millions of musicians that will probably never reach his level but will surely get better because of him. the same for Newton in science, van gogh in art, the french enlightenment in literature and so on. they are genius, they are examples and can inspire for generations,that's why we study them at school. but they would have been nothing without an example to get knowledge and inspiration from. recognizing a potential genius and not spend enough time on him it's a negligence that would affect not only him but the entire society and its progress.
Kunming educator finalist for Global Teacher Prize
Posted by@fixit now I'm getting confused about your point..you are saying it is easy to teach every kid what they need to learn. i agree on this, we often realize that many kids don't need to learn English,piano or other specific subjects like business etc, so teachers job can be well done advising them to spend time in something they are good at, and possibly helping in finding a specific teacher for that. tiger was also telling you the same, why wasting time in class on people who are not good at studying when that time can be used to people who are good? i met amazing people who had a very low education but they were smart to dedicate time in what they liked and became an excellence in that (helping their personal growth aswell). then i met tons of graduated people who are still confused about what to do with their life because they weren't lucky enough to get proper advices.
Kunming educator finalist for Global Teacher Prize
Posted by@fixit i don't wanna turn this topic into a football conversation but i just don't agreewith you.,if you move ronaldo bale and benzema behind, then shift pepe marcelo and ramos ahead you won't get the same result,we don't need to be professional coaches to understand this. put the right people at the right place is the foundation of every successful team in every kind of project. you said you adviced a student to try to become an artist and he succeeded, great! thanks to your experience you understood what was his best quality and you adviced him well. That was the best thing you could do as a teacher,instead of wasting your and his time keeping him in class studying something he was no good at. showing directions is not giving up,discouraging or leaving people behind, it's just doing well the teaching job, helping students in finding their way and becoming adults.