Posted on 01/08/2012 12:54:34 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
"They are 'Precious Snowflakes', wrapped in cotton wool from day one," said Paul French, the founder of Access Asia, a China-based research company.
"Nothing is ever quite right for them. It is always either too hot or too cold and they are all hypochondriacs.
~snip~
"The first generation, the Little Emperors, were quite tough: fat little thugs always stuffing themselves full of McDonald's," said Mr French. "The new generation is very concerned with things like air quality, which the Little Emperors never bothered about.
"They only drink Evian and are scared of food unless it is imported. Their parents tread quietly around them so they can do 'natural waking', where they do not use alarm clocks but are in tune with their biorhythms."
~snip~
Gu Jianmei, 47, has taught at the Tianjia'an No. 3 kindergarten in Huainan, Anhui province, for three decades. She said the current generation of students had been banned from making any "big movements", like jumping, dancing or crawling, because of fears the children might hurt themselves.
"We have padded all the stairs, bannisters, corners and the children do not do physical exercise. Instead we lie them on cushioned mats," she said.
"They are more aggressive, and also more weak. They cannot control themselves and they give up when given tasks to do. Because their parents do everything for them, they do not believe they can do things themselves. They cannot even do up their buttons," she said.
~snip~
"The first generation of single children have already been deprived of having brothers and sisters. The second generation is even worse: they do not have cousins, uncles or aunts either. Some of them face being entirely alone when they grow up and their parents pass away. Think how lonely they will be."
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Really, no aunts or uncles, basically no family. So the state can be your family I guess. But, I wonder if that’s not in store here too, at least for many families. I know many people with one child or no children. Another interesting (but sad in my opinion) phenomena is that because so many American couples are waiting so late to have children their kids don’t have Grandparents as they get older. It’s really changed the dynamics of being a family (and not for the better in my opinion).
Yes they do. You know, its actually even worse than indicated because the one child policy causes a skewed sex ratio. There is a surplus of males...males with no relatives and with a stunted ability to socialize...and nothing in their lives to compete with the state’s agenda set for them.
The ruling elite of china have created for themselves a vast nation of worker drones. But at the expense of a future, if the one child policy persists. I don’t think the fact that many of them are pampered spoiled brats with no skills will hurt their economy though. At 3 billion people, even if 2/3rds of every generation is disfunctional, they still have more than enough worker drones to keep the system flourishing. For now.
I have friends like that. Actually, I haven't heard from them in a couple of years, so I don't know if they are still alive. Not only are they both "only" children, they elected to have no children of their own. He was a highly successful attorney and they both inherited a good bit of wealth from their parents,so they are "set" financially. All they did was fight over it.
Now, they spend all their time with the Sierra Club, climbing mountains, travel, skiing, worrying about their genealogy (strange for people with no heirs), and (him) playing with model trains with the local train society. I would not consider it a happy union (alcohol for him; nit picking for her).
These precious snowflakes will make ideal soldiers one day.... LMAO!!!
I realized that he was correct. In my circle of friends there are more adults than children and the kids have the two biological parents plus step-parents, half-step-parents not to mention God-parents and assorted childless adult relatives.
This sounds like a cultural vacuum to me. And we've seen that sort of vacuum filled constantly throughout history.
Visigoths, Huns,Vikings, Mongols, . . . vacuum fillers all.
The process is change......... from chicoms to chicaps
But what I realized soon after, was that we have the equivalent--and it is a much larger percentage of our population. Not to even mention the kids of various ethnic backgrounds that seem to identify more with their "home country"-whether they were born here or not. Even if there are 10 million "snowflake kids" in China, that is a drop of in an ocean. They have plenty of hungry kids who will be more than adequate to serve as cannon feeder, cannon fodder against us...or guard in an extermination camp for the lazy, no good "snowflake kids"
My mother is an only child and my uncle on the other side died when I was very young. I have two sisters and no brothers. I had trouble socializing in school and I think this may have had something to do with it. When other kids would talk about having a full house at Christmas I had no reference. I can see how a whole country like this could have some serious social problems.
re:Ah, the unforeseen consequences of the State managing families.
Yes, it is not nice to fool Mother Nature!
You're right. That is weird to contemplate. No uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, sisters. I guess one would have or might have grandparents, but that's it.
It's not like that in rural areas.
I feel old ;-)
1,338,299,500 Chinese, not 3 billion.
re: Where have I heard about precious snowflakes before? Oh yeah, HERE
excellent!
Yeah, I had some problems socializing as a youngster(but for different reasons) so I can relate. I took everything literally, and expected others to do the same. I think I was nearly twenty before I started to feel halfway comfortable with popular phrases and the fact that people don’t mean things literally. I still remember being disgusted with people for parroting the stupid things we say to each other as greetings...hi, how is your day...are you having a good day...how are you doing today...and other nonsense. My feeling was if you couldn’t think of anything more meaningful to say I would prefer you keep your thoughts to yourself. And I had a habit of telling people literally what I thought, although not with insulting words. So you can imagine what the average small talk was like for me...pure torture is what. They would almost always end up calling me names which would result in me literally punching them in the face. Yep, age 5 through 15 was not exactly a fairy tale for me. I think part of it was genetic. I still remember my mother and grandmother both saying sternly “state your business” when a stranger would approach them with meaningless chit chat.
Why isn’t it?
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