Mayflower Bar: No Indians Allowed?
by Admin on Jan.23, 2010, under Blog, Changchun
I met up with an acquaintance of mine who told me that he was in Mayflower yesterday. He claims to know one of the managers there. He told me that the manager told him, beginning today, Indians will not be permitted to enter Mayflower. Apparently, that goes for anyone who looks Indian too!
How factual is that? I don’t know and it’s obviously hard to believe. The reason this “ban” is supposed to be implemented is because of the following stereotypes of the Indians here:
1. There are too many occupying seats
2. They don’t buy anything
3. They remain sober, wait until everyone is drunk and then;
4. They pick-pocket/ steal wallets/ phones of the other customers.
When I was being told about this, I found it almost unbearable having to listen to such a load of crap from someone. If there’s something I’ve learned about most of the Chinese people I know, it’s that if they have an opinion about something, chances are, that opinion will not change. Why? Because it’s not their opinion necessarily, it’s the opinion of their parents, grandparents and almost everyone else’s.
Anyway, I sure hope this new rule is bogus, will update you on that eventually! I haven’t been to Mayflower (all three) since last year (2009’s New year’s Day)!
China’s University Education System Today
by Admin on Jan.20, 2010, under Blog
According to http://www.4icu.org/top200/, the top 20 Universities globally for this year are:
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
2 Stanford University
United States
3 Harvard University
United States
4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico
5 University of California, Berkeley
United States
6 Peking University
China
7 University of Pennsylvania
United States
8 Cornell University
United States
9 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
10 Yale University
United States
11 Tsinghua University
China
12 University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
13 Duke University
United States
14 Fudan University
China
15 University of Oxford
United Kingdom
16 Xi’an Jiaotong University
China
17 Indiana University
United States
18 Keio University
Japan
19 National University of Singapore
Singapore
20 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Switzerland
China has 5 Universities in the Top 20. I don’t know how factual this information is or how reliable this source is but I don’t think it’s hard to believe. In the world, many Westerners tend to feel that Chinese, Russian and Cuban degrees are “fake”, when do you notice that these 3 countries are seen internationally, famous for being what? Communist countries (F.Y.I Russia isn’t anymore).
It’s just a stereotype people have to get over. How many people who are well-connected get into IVY league Universities of the US without merit? A lot! Isn’t that “fake” too? If you are well-connected, rich and have donated to the University etc you can get into almost any University in the world!
Do you know how easy it is for an ordinary Chinese to get into e.g. Tsinghua University? It’s not easy at all! If they are not from either Beijing or Shanghai, they’d be damn lucky just to land a University in one of those two cities. Do you know how easy it is for a foreigner to get into Tsinghua? I know one guy who landed Shanghai’s Tongji University with average O’level grades.
Once on TV they were interviewing Chinese students who went to the UK and US for University and the students claimed that the professors were incredibly lenient with them because of their language difficulties. They would pay to get their homeworks done and one guy who was studying in the UK even said that there were two other Chinese in this specific class with him and the teacher allowed them to submit one essay that all three could work on for days and they would all be graded on that one essay! Of course, they were told not to talk about it to the other students! We all know how easy it is to keep secrets when it benefits you! And of course they won’t rat ever, their grades and reputation rely on them keeping their mouth shut-forever if possible!
So yeah, as important and as difficult it is for some students to get into a University, you can get into any University anywhere and everywhere if you have money. That simple.
