> more than one million Chinese students were studying abroad <
A lifetime ago I was a security guard for a major university. And I always volunteered for the holiday shifts. Double-time and a half pay was a great incentive.
The campus was empty during the holidays. It was like a ghost town. Except when I walked through the science buildings. There they were, the Chinese students, busy doing lab work.
That was impressive. And also a bit concerning.
We got fat, dumb and happy.
This leads me to wonder what happened to those students?
Modern China has contributed jack in moving the human race forward.
I saw first hand at MSU in Wichita Falls TX. mid-70’s.
Couple of older gentlemen (28 - 30) from China, paying extra to study in ...
Godforsaken, dry, dusty Wichita Falls?!
Well, it was the home to F14 training for the Persian Air Force, and a SAC base as well ...
I recall when my youngest was a science student at a state university in the 70’s, she complained to us that the lab work was very difficult in that the instructors were difficult to understand as they were ALL foreigners and spoke poor English..
They were working that much because they have to play catch-up to all the other students. There is a lot of cheating to get into US universities. They study four times more than US students to get the same grades. Chinese culture punishes failure so they never test anything. My son was a researcher in a university Ag lab when he was in high school. It’s mindless drone work.