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By i (Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 05:54:07 AM EST) (all tags)

Do you still need to know what subject Chinese kids hate most?

History of China. Why? Because they have four friggin millenia of it. Packed with stuff up to the neck. It's freakin mindboggling huge and they have to learn it all.

OK maybe that was not particularly enlightening. Just thought I'd share.

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Question by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 06:27:47 AM EST

Israeli hisory lessons. Do they include Old Testament times because then you have nearly as much ghistory as the Chinese?

Not to mention... by extremely tedious HuSer (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 06:38:24 AM EST

the Lebanese, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, the Italians, and so on

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Italians? by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 07:04:53 AM EST

What were the Italians doing of note in 2000 BC?

Chinese history is a big subject and one prone to distortion when viewed from a Eurocentric perspective. Doesn't stop me from reading a single Chinese history book that will no doubt make me an expert.

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: My wrong by extremely tedious HuSer (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 07:14:59 AM EST

I thought Magna Graecia was 2000 BC, but was more than a 1000 years.

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i'm sorry by LilFlightTest (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 09:14:34 PM EST

for some reason, i read that as "lesbians" even though i knew what it was supposed to say.
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Well, they do. by i (2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 10:46:46 AM EST

The history is long indeed, but the available data is sketchy. For instance, we don't even know whether King Solomon really existed. The Chinese have much more data.

OTOH our kids are made to learn the Old Testament (generally, as a historical and literary monument).

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Sorry, off topic: by Alice Pulley (4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 06:46:58 AM EST

This made me think of an email just received from a pal in Japan at the mo. He has just started to go out with this Japanese girl, here is his description of a date:

'She's a bit mad, talks really poetically. The other day, we'd just gone out and she said 'I've left something in your flat'. I said 'What?'. She said 'my heart'. So I gave her the keys and said 'let yourself in, I'll meet you in the pub'.'

Hes such a romantic.

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'But they're adults and perfectly capable of working it out themselves. And if not, well, fuck em.' - Nebbish '06.

Whiny slackers by lm (4.00 / 2) #6 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 07:28:07 AM EST

I was made to learn Chinese history and I don't even speak Chinese.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

Love by idiot boy (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 08:14:36 AM EST

The sig. ROFL.

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:-< by Alice Pulley (4.00 / 1) #9 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 08:37:24 AM EST

<sternlook>

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'But they're adults and perfectly capable of working it out themselves. And if not, well, fuck em.' - Nebbish '06.

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: Heh! by idiot boy (4.00 / 1) #10 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 10:21:04 AM EST

It's evil. But it's funny :).

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Hey! by Alice Pulley (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 08:36:36 AM EST

I mean, I know I admitted it but still, hey!

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'But they're adults and perfectly capable of working it out themselves. And if not, well, fuck em.' - Nebbish '06.

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: It's a secret by lm (4.00 / 2) #13 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 07:31:14 PM EST

Stop driving attention to it.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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What's worse... by The Fool (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 10:23:27 AM EST

is having a whole year devoted to American history. There's not that much to it, so you end up studying things that are too trivial to care about at all.

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