2010-02-10, 10:29 AM
To be fair...
This is high school you're referring to. It's very common for high school students not yet to have a very good idea of where they're going later in life, and in the absence of that, what can they do besides follow what they know? It's certainly no worse than whatever else they could be doing.
Unfortunately, this has more to do with how this is taught than with the students themselves. Factual details will be on the test, therefore you must know them. (For the record, I think this is crap too, particularly in English.)
Most people in general don't think about these things very much.
2147483647 Wrote:The first problem with Asians is that many of them aren't studying for themselves. Whenever I try talking to people I know, many of them will tell me that they're studying. I can't really understand why, and when I pursue the question further, they tell me that their parents will be angry with them if they fail (Asian-fail, not even really failing). I still don't really understand this and I probably never will. Every time I hear that, I want to believe that these people are just making up a BS reply so that they don't have to explain. But now hearing it over the years, it unfortunately seems true to me.
This is high school you're referring to. It's very common for high school students not yet to have a very good idea of where they're going later in life, and in the absence of that, what can they do besides follow what they know? It's certainly no worse than whatever else they could be doing.
Quote:Many believe that English is about reading stories to the point that you can recall every little detail. Many believe that science, and even history, is about memorizing cold, hard facts. None of these are true, yet they're what's taught throughout school and such ideas continue to persist throughout high school.
Unfortunately, this has more to do with how this is taught than with the students themselves. Factual details will be on the test, therefore you must know them. (For the record, I think this is crap too, particularly in English.)
Quote:In addition, I find many Asians really, really shallow. They have never considered self-examination, and have never considered even the most basic questions in life. For example, I asked many people a simple question, such as "what is happiness?", and the only Asian I've ever heard who could produce a satisfactory answer (as in something more complex than a variation of "a feeling of euphoria") is Vicky. She answered, "I don't know, but it's derived from making others happy". I then asked her another question, "Then why do you make others angry?" She didn't know why.
Most people in general don't think about these things very much.