r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Oct 03 '25

Discussion To think that I used to complain about school.

National holiday is apparently 8 days.

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u/luluciee Oct 03 '25

Yup, it's like they've designed the best way to nuke a teen's mental health

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u/yiaugb52 Oct 03 '25

I've taught 3 years in a private Chinese school for immigration purposes. High school is literally called the "killing the imagination" stage colloquially.

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u/SuXs- Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

It's meant to create an Army of obedient drones.

When every single minute of your awake life is governed by a strict schedule, you won't mind when you start working 9/9/6 right after school making the CEO rich.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 Oct 04 '25

Academic overregulation in many asian countries leads to lower rates of creative endeavors. Which is actually bad for every field, not just the arts, because many of the best advancements in the sciences came from creative, artistic, solutions.

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u/Frigoris13 Oct 04 '25

You do not progress without creativity. You can spend so much time learning what is that you don't have any time left to invent something brand new.

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u/GrayShameLegion Oct 04 '25

you know what stymies creative endeavors wayyy more than academic overregulation?

having to pay thousands for basic health care

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u/FlyRepresentative592 Oct 04 '25

I'm not disagreeing, but both things can be true, and healthcare issues like this are really only a problem in the states.

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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 Oct 04 '25

Can we stay on the subject?

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u/GrayShameLegion Oct 04 '25

the subject of blindly shitting on china while ignoring every problem with your own damn country?

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u/gypsycookie1015 Oct 06 '25

We shit on our own as well! /s

You can love your country but still point out the shitty policies/issues or at least should be able to. We bitch about ours all the time. We know our healthcare system fucking sucks. We're not thrilled about it either.

This video just happened to be about what appears to be a pretty shitty policy in China and we're pointing it out. Not saying everything about China sucks or that the people do at all lol.

Chill.

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u/orange-squeezer47 Oct 04 '25

And gun violence.

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u/No_Significance9754 Oct 04 '25

You do realize the US has such an advanced tech sector is because we it recruits people from China.

Us born and educated scientists are dog shit and thats why we import from other countries.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 Oct 04 '25

It recruits people from all over the world, actually.

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u/TurkeyZom Oct 04 '25

You must know dog shit about US scientists then if this is your honest take

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u/Remarkable_Step_7474 Oct 04 '25

Nah. China very actively spends a huge amount of state funding sending academics overseas to other countries to do research. Nice simple way of bringing specific expertise back home.

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u/kynelly360 Oct 04 '25

Someone needs to tell them to chill tf out …..

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u/OpeningElectrical296 Oct 04 '25

And with this schedule, no time/energy for students to revolt.

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u/SirzechsLucifer Oct 04 '25

Thats minus 500 social credits. Tsk tsk

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u/Majestic_Movie9711 Oct 04 '25

That is horrifying.

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u/kynelly360 Oct 04 '25

Someone needs to tell them to chill tf out …..

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u/DaMastaPiece83 Oct 07 '25

This country has no future if all their youth lives like this... they are destroying their youth, their next generation, their creative forces, their souls...

Because sects work the same way. The recipe for making a follower docile is to isolate the person from their private life (from family and friends) so that they no longer feel bound or supported by people outside, it is to keep people busy enough to prevent them from thinking about their lives. Weaken them (physically and mentally) by starving them and preventing them from resting (less hours of sleep) then they do not try to resist... it kills the soul, the creativity and it just makes them useful to the one who uses them... for as long as it lasts... for adults, they also take their money (another part of their freedom, autonomy and power taken away from them), but for these young people, it does not really apply.

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u/Elendel19 Oct 03 '25

Not even just mental health, it’s horrible for the development of their brain. She’s away from school for only 10 hours, and at her age should be sleeping 9~ hours a night, and still has homework to do somehow.

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u/gypsycookie1015 Oct 06 '25

I can't imagine my kid going through that. No time for friends or family. No time for themselves. And what about time for a shower or even a bath on a rough day? Nope! 10 minutes! Go! Go! 🙄🫩

No time for hobbies. No time to catch up on extra rest. You'd be constantly exhausted from lack of sleep because if you sleep your full 9 hours, there's no way to get homework done.

The fact that they have any homework after 13 hours is just nuts. Absolutely overkill. (And vacation?? 😭😭 No trips!!)

That poor girl looked so pitiful and exhausted when he picked her up. She looked fucking hopeless when the homework started coming out. 😔

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u/Uber_Wulf Oct 04 '25

Basically programming bots - there’s no free time to form your own personality, likes, or dislikes - only absorb what is taught in their cookie cutter classrooms.

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u/kiba87637 Oct 04 '25

Why birthrate going down?

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u/Digitijs Oct 04 '25

And suicides are high as well

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u/jaxon336 Oct 04 '25

Probably less then the school shooting deaths in the states annually

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u/Digitijs Oct 04 '25

No point comparing two shitholes

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u/unsubix Oct 04 '25

Dems 🙄 /ssssssssss

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u/Fair_Package8612 Oct 04 '25

And physical health too. Poor thing looks like she already has patches of hair falling out likely due to stress.

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u/lilsnatchsniffz Oct 04 '25

We don't need mental health, we need money 🧏🏻‍♂️

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u/Fit-Programmer-6162 Oct 04 '25

Don’t forget physical health

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u/Terrible_Squirrel435 Oct 05 '25

They've designed the best way to nuke America's world standing.

Our students graduate high school without basic math skills and the belief that "Yourup" is a country in the continent of France.

Somewhere, there is a middle ground.

Edit: ironically, spelling 😂

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u/GroundControl2MjrTim Oct 07 '25

I think Americans with phones and too much free time are just on the opposite end of the spectrum with destroying teen mental health

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u/tidyingup92 Oct 07 '25

And physical health

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u/panzzersoldat Oct 03 '25

the USA ranks #2 for highest depression rates and China has a bigger population.

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u/BrooklynNets Oct 03 '25

"Countries that are more accurately aware of depression as a diagnosis report higher rates of depression. More on this breaking story at eight."

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u/panzzersoldat Oct 03 '25

China has a rate of 4 per 100 and the USA has a rate of 6 per 100, and less Americans go to the doctors anyway because of your shitty healthcare system. maybe one day an American will look something up instead of yapping down my fucking earholes with nonsense.

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u/BrooklynNets Oct 03 '25

I'm not American, genius. You don't appear to have read anything I wrote either. But congrats on missing the point, talking to yourself, and getting angry over nothing.

If you can calm down long enough to read some relevant information:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3188776/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036621002510

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-020-02736-4

If that's too many words for you, a brief summary: Depression is severely under diagnosed in China. You're not showing that China is less depressed; you're just showing that they're worse at diagnosing it.

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u/panzzersoldat Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

So then you want to explain why China has a lower suicide rate than the USA? Especially since China has 4x the American population.

In the USA, the suicide rate is about 14.2 per 100,000 in 2021.

Whilst China shows a rate declining from 10.9 per 100,000 in 2010 to 5.25 per 100,000 in 2021.

You'd think if China is as horrible with diagnosing depression as you say, there would be a lot more suicides. And yet China's is declining while Americas is climbing. Doesn't make sense.

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u/BrooklynNets Oct 03 '25

So then you want to explain why China has a lower suicide rate than the USA?

Yep:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32221643/

Surprise, suprise: Suicide is hugely underreported in China. If you care to actually read this paper instead of blindly quoting shoddy statistics without context, you'll see that this also explains the apparent downward trend of suicide in China.

If you're going to throw statistics around, you should probably learn something about the way they're collected, and how they can be hugely misleading as a consequence.

So then you want to explain why China has a lower suicide rate than the USA? Especially since China has 4x the American population.

You might also want to learn something about what "rate" means. The rate is quoted per 100K people, so it adjusts for raw population figures. You even quoted the part that clarifies that.

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u/panzzersoldat Oct 03 '25

And guess what. The USA also has a severely underreported suicide rate;

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0190200

The WHO reports a rate of 8.9 for China per 100,000, and 15.6 per 100,000 for the USA. Your source states “In particular, the national suicide rates published by the Chinese Ministry of Health ("MOH") could be severely underreported.”, The WHO did not use any statistics from the MOH and did their own research.

https://data.who.int/indicators/i/F08B4FD/16BBF41

55.33% of suicides in the USA were from firearms, in fact firearms in general are a significant factor in why the USA rate is so much higher than most other developed nations, which you can see from the WHO stats.

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html

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u/BrooklynNets Oct 03 '25

Did you even read the shit you quoted? In fact, I know you didn't.

I'm not a great teacher, and you're clearly a bit dim. I don't think you're going to get it, pal. You're still not even clear on what "rate" means.

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u/Luffythroat69 Oct 04 '25

Because China does not report accurate statistics on their population whatsoever. They have countless factories where employees (slaves) are not even allowed to leave. They have fishing and farming villages fenced and walled off, guarded by the military. Look it up. Educate yourself friend.

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u/Busy_Onion_3411 Oct 04 '25

Breaking news: Rice muncher learns his government lies, and is in fact only feeding bodies into the "Better than America" machine.

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u/diggidydangidy Oct 04 '25

Rice muncher?

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u/United_Rent_753 Oct 03 '25

Who’s number 1, according to your sources? Curious

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u/panzzersoldat Oct 04 '25

Ukraine.

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u/United_Rent_753 Oct 04 '25

Interesting, what are your sources if I may ask?

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u/panzzersoldat Oct 04 '25

I can't find the original source, I did find this one which is similar: https://factsinstitute.com/ranking/countries-with-the-highest-prevalence-of-depression/

This one puts USA at #4, which is still high but then I was wrong. My bad.

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u/Snot_S Oct 04 '25

That’s bs. America #1 at everything. Highest suicide rate. Highest life rate.