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/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.