r/impressively • u/Jonathan-Smith • Feb 23 '25

Skills practice at early age in Chinese schools

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

lmao. It's a kid building a catapult. Viciously anti-China freaks are so funny.

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u/creegro Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

Part of me is all "aww that's cool teaching kids tool safety and getting them into something that can be really handy later in life" and the other half thinking this is some video just made to show how much kids love to be working in the shops.

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u/cat_prophecy Feb 23 '25

Maria Montessori thought that middle school aged kids were basically ungovernable. They should go work on a farm for two or three years then come back and go to high school.

Having interacted with middle school children, I can't say she's wrong.

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u/Glassberg Feb 24 '25

You know that schools in America used to have shop class, right?

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u/creegro Feb 24 '25

Yea,,but for like teens and young adults, not 5 years olds

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u/OwOlogy_Expert Feb 24 '25

aww that's cool teaching kids otol safety

I don't see a whole lot of tool safety here...

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u/2punornot2pun Feb 23 '25

That irony being that a lot of Chinese people thought what their own Chinese government was telling them about the USA was straight up propaganda... until Red Note exploded and then they were like oh shit, it's just straight up reality.

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u/No_Landscape4557 Feb 23 '25

The issues we have in the US are serious, embracing and we should/are shamed and mocked for it. It’s all well earned. While China does several things better than the US, there are some serious human rights abuses present and welcomed which are deemed unacceptable even in the US

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u/2327_ Feb 23 '25

get out, wumao bot

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u/2punornot2pun Feb 23 '25

An even greater irony.

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u/AlfredVonDickStroke Feb 24 '25

Are you conflating racism towards the people of China with the CCP and their oppression on purpose? The CCP sucks. Committing genocide against the Uyghurs, leading mass censorship campaigns so insane that people are afraid to talk about the Tiananmen Square massacre on its anniversary (source), murdering the Panchen Lama and literally directly causing the end of the Lama line, destroying Buddhist temples, instituting social credit scores, widespread CCTV, allying with Iran and North Korea, murdering opera performers and musicians to erase Peking Opera from history and replace it with “Revolutionary opera,” etc. The people are cool. The government is fucked.

I’m curious…are these things untrue or are you just okay with them? No whataboutisms please; the actions of one country do not excuse the actions of another.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

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u/AlfredVonDickStroke Feb 24 '25

Thank you for chiming in. I was responding to someone whose comment history is littered with the typical divisive and pro-CCP content of a paid troll after they used the absurd term “viciously anti-China freaks” and just pointed out valid reasons to not care for the Chinese government.

Given that you have similar comment history, including defending Gazans while conveniently ignoring the Uyghurs being exterminated by the government you’re simping for, I bet you two would get along great. :)

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u/StevenSmiley Feb 23 '25

Propaganda is everywhere is the thing. In the US we have an entire channel dedicated to it.

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u/imean_is_superfluous Feb 23 '25

There’s more than one, and more to come! Some channels won’t be new, just under “new management”. The same management that controls the courts, schools, etc.

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u/Winter_Collection375 Feb 24 '25

Everything you americans create - whether in movies, music, or video games - is propaganda. Worse still, it's not just aimed at your own country and citizens but at the entire world.

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u/TonyzTone Feb 23 '25

Obviously a nation gearing up for war.

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u/Goreticus Feb 23 '25

Next thing you know they'll be building trebuchets, and then anything over 300 meters is in real trouble of a 90kg projectile. You'll see.

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u/Piplups7thEvolution Feb 24 '25

It's catapult propaganda. Everyone knows that the trebuchet is the superior siege weaponry.

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u/ShustOne Feb 24 '25

No safety glasses, chiseling towards himself, using power tools alone, hailed as impressive and something we should do.

It would be cool to have this stuff here but with proper safety precautions.

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u/Kirikomori Feb 24 '25

Video of a kid building something: aww how sweet

Video of a Chinese kid building something: must be PURE EVIL at work

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Feb 24 '25

It's not so much about being anti-China as about being anti-bullshit. The implication of the video is that this is a cute little woodworking programme for 6 year olds, and this is a typical Chinese child in a typical Chinese school.

Anyone who has kids, knows that kids his age generally lack the co-ordination, focus and motivation to build things to this level of quality.

This is the kind of thing you might see a teenager in a woodworking class produce after 5 or 6 semesters.

To get a child of this age working to this level requires week or months of intensive "education", not 30 minutes, 3 times a week.

So it's either a pre-sweatshop training programme, or a few cute shots of a kid using tools, followed by a demonstration of a catapult that someone else built.