there's a lot of pressure at the center of the universe

[arouet]

I was lent an old issue of Fortune magazine with an article on little emperors. The article was an excellant piece of culture reporting and I think it fairly nailed the odd universe of the new middle class Chinese children, whose every want is gratified and who are expected to pull an atlas's weight

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Little emperors

[anonymous]

Yeah, I've been teaching in China for four years and just moved to Shenzhen. For extra work I just started working at a local private middle/high school. I always thought teaching was pretty easy until I ran into the children of super-rich and cultureless Guangdong businessmen. The kids were supposed to do pairwork about what their expectations about education were and all the bad boys in the back said they could care less because in the future they would just use their fathers' relationships to make their own businesses. They all agreed that education was totally useless and just a waste of time.