China's Youth Today Are Not "Little Emperors"

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Many people think that China’s Youth today are lazy, selfish, and spoiled. But where is their proof? Have they met actual Chinese Youths? I have lived in China for almost all of my life and I have not seen anything that shows Chinese Youth as lazy, selfish, or spoiled. First, let’s look at laziness. Do you know how many hours they are in school? A total of 13 hours. And do you know how long it takes for them to do homework? Around 6 hours. Look at these hours and compare then to our school day. We have 7 hours of school, and at the very most 1 or 2 hours of homework. How can we say they are lazy when they don’t even have to time to be lazy? They run around and work from dawn until dusk, doing school work for 19 hours straight. I am not making this up, I have friends in a small town just two hours from ere where their only free time is on the weekends, and most of that time is filled with more homework and other activities their parents sign them up for, such as extra math, Chinese, dance, piano, and lots of other things. All this gives them no time to just be kids. For us, our weekends are full of shopping in the mall, watching TV, playing video games, and sleeping. How is that not called be lazy? Secondly, let’s look at selfishness. Again, where is their proof? The Chinese Youth have a lot of responsibilities, from their schoolwork to their families. Most Chinese houses include 5 people, the grandparents, the parents, and the child. The child’s job is to take care of both the grandparents and the parents; that are four people to take care of! For us, we usually get taken care of by our parents, and only go visit our grandparents once in a while. We don’t take care of our grandparents, our parents do that. We don’t take care of anyone until our parents are older, and then we usually have a sibling to help out. Because of the one child policy, the Chinese Youth have

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