What’s Going On in China Now….??!!!

National emblem of the People’s Republic of China (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As with any country China has a lot of crazy stuff going on.  Unless, your hear or read the local news outlets you will never know what is happening.  So, I am going to give you the 411 on what is the big news going around the country…..

 

Crazy Arse Couple Buries an Old Woman Alive….. Yep, this unfortunately, was in my city.  A young, couple had just left KTV and were pretty drunk.  They accidentally hit a 68-year old woman, who was walking down the street.  The people who saw it happen watch the couple rushed out of the car, check the woman and put her in the car.  The people assumed that they were taking her to the hospital.   HOWEVER, the couple, thinking the woman was already dead, did not want to go to jail for hitting the woman so they buried her on the side of the road trying to cover up the death.  The woman was still alive…. !!! … … seems they are going to jail after all.  They caught them.

 

BRITISH MAN GETS BEAT UP FOR TRYING TO RAPE A LOCAL GIRL.... Now this story is sweeping the nation.  This British guy.. (thank you lord he was not American) followed a girl off the subway in Beijing and attempted to rape her right there on the street in front of the world.  The girl was screaming and the local Chinese men came to her rescue and be the holy crap out of him.   (as they should have) …Time and time again some foreigners come to China and think they can just do whatever the hell they want to the people who live here.  It not only is just wrong.. but it hurts the foreigners that are here doing good things and not causing trouble.  Now that this has happened the China government is putting a 100-day major crackdown on illegal foreigners and foreigners that are messing crap up for the rest of us.  Unfortunately, when we foreigners live here.. we all get grouped into one group so it does not matter what country your from.. you just not from China.  Now the locals are wanting to kick foreign people out of China…. they need to bury that guy under the jail…. (and in China they just might)  

http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/videos/british-man-beat-up-for-sexually-assaulting-chinese-girl.html

 

CHINESE OFFICIAL ARREST FOR RAPING MORE THAN 10 WOMEN…I think the lack of women is getting to some men over here because there are more and more stories on women being raped.  This one big news.. a rich Chinese official was finally arrested and admitted to raping at least 10 girls.  They won’t say the ages of the girls.. but it doesn’t look good.   I would not be surprised if this guy just kind of disappeared off the earth.   They do not play that in China especially a government official.   Not because it is forbidden but because he got caught.  He has now make the government lose face… a big no-no… that poor dude is done.  I hope the girls get the proper help to get thru that trauma.

STUDENTS USE IV SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO STUDY FOR THE EXAM.. I am sure you have heard how important the national test is for high school seniors in China.  This test (gaokao).. determines what happens to the child in the future; if they do not pass it.. they cannot go to college, which means no good job and in a lot of cases your family will never get out of poverty.   The kids are the ticket to a better life.   This makes the exam very, very important. This puts pressure on the kids and the teachers.. if the kids do not do well the blame ..yep.. goes to the teacher and they could lose their job.   Some schools have taken to set up IV drips to help the children stay hydrated and alert while studying for this exam.   Yep… each child has an IV…so they have no excuse to stop studying.

MAN CUTS IN LINE AT ATM AND GETS STABBED… Talk about pissing someone off.  A guy cuts in line at an atm machine in front of a girl who had been waiting there and her boyfriend gets pissed and stabs the man in the back.  They man just continues to get the money out of the machine while blood is running down his back… and calmly finishes… gets out of line then calls the police.  I guess he wanted to make sure he had enough money to pay the hospital when he got there.  I don’t know but there is some crazy mess that happens over here too… not just in the states.

To end on a happy note…. and give one point in

favor of the Americans.  An American student that is attending university in Nanjing has made the news papers.  He went into a McDonald’s and bought two orders of fries and sat down beside an old woman beggar and gave her one of the orders of fries and talked to her, even giving her some of his water.   The locals saw him there just chatting away with her having lunch and thought how warm and kind some foreigners can be.    Yay… one for us…Thanks for doing us proud dude.

China can be crazy and can run you crazy… trust me… But as I always say it depends how you go at the situation.  You can be an arse like the British guy that is going to get his … or you can be kind and patient. like the guy they are now calling “Fry Brother”. and prove that you can get through the craziness and set an example at the same time.

 

until next time....

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Where Do Babies Come From?

When I had my children I had to deal with explaining the facts of life to them.  Being a modern, no-nonsense mother that I am.  I told them exactly what the process was and used medical terminology to make it clear.   I really didn’t want any surprises showing up in my stint as a single parent.   I also taught my son to respect women and my daughter to respect herself.  All things that I think a mother or parent should do when raising kids, among a list of other things, of course.

However, at school today I had a discussion with the Chinese teachers about where babies come from and who told them about the birds and the bees.   I was in shock to find out that my 24 to 28-year-old co-workers told me that their mother told them that babies came from “stones”.    (Stones? Really?)    They informed me that until they reached about middle school age they all honestly believed it.    I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the craziness they were saying.   They also told me that their mother told them they were “found in the trash or in trash cans.”   Now my mother use to say those kinds of things as jokes when I was being a little demon.. but I never actually believed it, like many of the Chinese girls did.

This started me on the topic of their monthly visitor and birth control.   I begin to ask them questions like: What did they tell you about your monthly flow?  They told me .. they were just told that they were growing up.  No details, no explanation, no nothing!!  I could not believe the lack of knowledge these girls had when they entered high school and university.

Most learned about sex by themselves.. or other students.  They were so lost to this day, that the other foreign teachers and myself… had to explained to them about tampons.   Yes, boys and girls… most chinese women do not know what is a tampon and when we explain it to them… they were amazed and wanted to know where they could get such a wonderful gift. (although one asked me how to get it out… and another kept asking if it was true that you could go swimming)

They are  told, even now, when on their period that they are not allowed to eat or drink anything cold, they can not take a shower or wash their hair, and they are unable to participate in PE class in school.   It seems when in middle school or high school… when you are on your period.. you need to sit out and watch the class… ( I thought this was ridiculous now everyone know you are on your period)  This kind of thinking was so old-fashioned to me.. that I couldn’t believe that in 2012 they were still following these beliefs.

When we told them that when we had our periods… we did the same things that we did when we did not have them… they were amazed and said … “American women are sooooo strong!”

Then the discussion turned to birth control.  One of the foreign teachers were trying to explain that she wanted to have birth control while she was in China … just in case things got a little hot and heavy she didn’t want to go home with an extra gift for her family.   We were horrified to find that most of the girls in the office didn’t know much about birth control.

Instead of preventing births the responsible way, they said if you found out you were pregnant you take a pill and it went away (the day after pill)  and if it was too late for that you went to the hospital and they made it go away.   We were speechless.

I am not an advocate of using abortions as a form of birth control.   But I do believe it is your choice and your body.  But to not even introduce the idea of birth control to women is just sad.  Mind you there are condoms all over the place in wonderful fruit and meat flavors. (yukkk) There are ones that heat up and ones that glow in the dark and even ones that smell like flowers.  But the actual birth control pill… hard to find.

I am sure this is because I live in a smaller city and not a big city like Shanghai, or Beijing but the fact that in China there are thousands of these small cities and even smaller towns that have these same beliefs really scares me.

You would think that a country that has a one child policy  (unless you pay money, which is another story) .. that they would teach you how to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

My co-workers said that they even skip that chapter in Biology class.  Their parents figured.. if you do not tell them, they will not be interested in it.  (we all know that isn’t true) They figure you should be studying anyway.. not thinking about the opposite sex.  Until it is time for you to get married.  With many of my younger students in high school and university tell me that they have secret girlfriends and boyfriends that their parents don’t know about I feel that there are a lot of after pregnant hospital visits that the parents just do not know about, unfortunately.

Wow… what age have I stepped into? Clearly, with all the push for education and high grades they have forgotten a lot of important things in the parenting stuff they are doing over here.  I can only laugh and think back to what my grandmother said to me…

“The best birth control is an aspirin…. Hold it between your knees” 

until next time….

1926 US advertisement. “Birth Control” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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