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kalispell an article in a red in new york times about what chinese families
are willing to go through and sacrifice to send their kids to school
uh... let me know this is think about america that our families would you
sacrifice a lot like we take out both students and their families and liquids
to see my debt that we end up in
at my own personal experiences anything that's going to be bump in china it's
even more stark so
new york times been falling for seven years of rural family in china that the
husband the family we will
nidal ayyad doing has been working on what is in tyre like
whole shafts drilling with an electric drill uh... claustrophobic little titles
for only five hundred dollars a month texans i'd like to joke on the show
about how little i get paid doing this
benji is ideal for paid issues
all shafts mining for five dollars a month
uh... obvious it's a different country but
i mean that's that's pretty saying the white
sheet hai is little
the bags around apples and apple trees all day long
and they're doing this twelve dollars a day
exactly i'll tell you that i limit my that in our greeting a wal-mart for
passed by the horrors of war but
uh... you know if that's what i'm still en route to pune blood-like so this is a
quick summary of what they've been doing effort to nearly two decades they've
lived in a cramped in drafted two hundred square foot house with that
truth
it never on the car they don't take vacations they've never seen the ocean
this kid traditional new year's chips their ancestral village for five
straight years to save money on bus fares in gets intruder an extra holiday
pay in lines
and despite all of their frugality over the years they've essentially no
retirement savings in their doing all this
to send their daughter
loophole yiing to college uh... so this is what they're willing to do in china
it's pretty amazing when you when you get that way yeah
and the second pair that saying here in america obviously we have a hard time
paying for school to go back
in this case it's more than half of her family's income led her to college
i'm in america if you're going to a private university
that's about the same crosses an average american presented during the year and
then if you're going to s in st
public university that's about half of the cops about the average american
family makes the air but in china is a lot harder to get
scholarships as well as though they don't have access to that kind of
funding
uh... and then in a system that will see
from hannah none of those anti-nafta initiative that they are also having
uh... a similar problems what we're seeing here is that a college degree
doesn't necessarily need as much as it used to be his there's so many
uh... people graduating now from china with a college degree in the number of
graduate is actually quite drupal in the last decade so this is so much more
competition now so just because you have a college degree doesn't necessarily
mean that you're going to be able to get a job going on then this young woman
who's now a sophomore in college uh... her mom says every time i got ur calls
home she says i don't wanna keep going because she knows how much money it's
costing her family and she knows that she might not be able to get jobs and
she gets out the machines to stop and work ratio to stop in work instead of
the mom says
you got some studying to take care of us when we get older
and a guy says that's too much pressure i just don't wanna think about all that
responsibility that is a ton of pressure at the same time the family sacrificing
so much just to get her there and hear u_s_ you know we can rely on social
security and medicare when we get older
but in china it's kind of usually the child responsibility take care of their
parents because
their parents especially small farming community just don't have disassociated
and and medicare don't have those things to reliance listen as they can't work
anymore they need their kids to take care of them as a consequence of the
one-child policy they don't have three or four kids to take care of gives all
of her i'd know that you know it's a lot of pressure and i think that it's a sort
of and you know like enviable that she wants to leave so that she can work to
help them right now
but he's been in the mines for years you gotta finish college yap yap anyway this
images like this but the spotlight every once in awhile what other countries car
situation is like
i think is really interesting
well into the new york times and falling for that long but i'll have to imagine
after using them for case studies like seven years
in there tends to show the public housing dollars to help the matter is
that
and i mean i think i don't think that that's exactly that a cut yeah and u_s_
interesting story uh... follow that is any more hands that go either