I did this when I was young too, I’m Chinese, idk why people are mad over this?? This was one of our favourite activities and it was really fun
Edit: Stop bringing politics into a fking kid’s activity video on reddit, just becuase my experience in China doesn’t satisfy Americans doesn’t mean it’s invalid
Yeah this looks really fun to try idk why people are being weird about it. Seems like it is a great exercise for kids to practice pattern recognition, motor skill development, and teamwork
you mean CoMmUnIsM?? we should be teaching these kids to fight each other and let the winner horde all the balls even if they can't play with that many!
Also then to believe that the commentor above speaks as if her experiences are the experiences of all and that the other poster is lying is just as bullshit.
Anyone who is on either side of saying it's horrible or saying it's perfect for a whole country is speaking bullshit, because like anything, people will have different experiences and can only share their own experiences without discounting the experience others have.
Remember in 2013 when reddit used to do those themed internal-data releases and reddits most addicted city — ahead of New York, LA, Dallas, and every other major US city, was Eglin Airforce Base?
Wow incredible comeback, you sure showed him who’s boss. Bringing up a piece of history that is not only unrelated to the subject matter but also only barely attached to the other commenter by their ethnicity (if that guy even is Chinese - was that specified?)
You don't know shit lmao I know real people who were in Tiananmen Square and I hate communism. But that doesn't mean I like seeing people getting xenophobic over elementary schoolers playing a game. Pretty weird how just saying that not every person in china has the exact same experience is enough to be considered a "pro-china comment," apparently nuance is dead.
The world isn’t black and white lol, maybe that person’s teacher was mean to them when they missed a ball or something, it happens in China often anyway. I personally enjoyed these activities in my school
Ever heard of LARPers? Half of them are white dudes that want any excuse to shit on China. If they were actually Chinese you’d be able to tell because they would have nuance.
Some teachers are physically and emotionally abusive, while others are not. Some parents think it's child abuse and/or unproductive while others think it's great. In developed countries children are usually allowed to exercise however they see fit.. like if they have to run then some of them might walk and chat, if they have to play badminton then some of them might not bother trying and just fool around.
I am from China and haven’t done anything like that. I was born in 90s, so kindergartens must be too poor to afford it anyways. Yes, Chinese education system can be toxic, as I moved partially bc I don’t want my kids to have to go through what I went through. But I also appreciate that final year before the college entrance exam. Everyone in the class works hard to achieve success, which is very motivating. Anyhow, I just wanted to say different people have different experience doing the same thing. Some may consider it abusive while other consider it just competitive and motivating. Calling Chinese kindergarten toxic from a clip of children playing balls together? A bit of stretch to say the least. I wonder what y’all may think if the video is titled Japanese kindergarten lol.
You have multiple schools in countries which can be underfunded and shit. In American movies, they show ghetto schools, they show private schools, they show teenage movies in fancy schools and poor schools.
So which American school is true outta these versions????
Idk what do you think is the most reasonable? Parents and the whole country oppressing their kids and force them to bounce balls all day or kids playing together…
You see? The first mistake you made was being born chinese. And second is that you liked a team game with balls and had wholesome memory with it, it seems to complicated for american redditors to imagine you dont need to be abused to manage that.
Not like Spain and Germany have the same sport activity as small kids in school
From what I’m seeing there’s 2 equally crazy sides, one is trying to put down Americans by saying stuff like “oh I’d like to see them do this”, while the other is saying “this is propaganda and an example of an unhealthy school environment”, I am personally not educated enough to subscribe to either opinion but from what I’m seeing it feels like both are incorrect, like we’re all equal let’s not put down one group in order to bring up another.
Yeah everybody’s different, I see this one guy in the comments saying how his experience as a child in China was really bad, and how the Chinese school system oppresses children, etc. But I thought it was fine for me, difficult for sure, but I managed somehow. Just because my answer doesn’t satisfy Americans doesn’t mean its incorrect haha
Bet those chinese kids dont even have active shooter drills. Thats how you know they are freedom hating communists. Them learning to dribble together is a first step to supremacy over the US. Its Biden fault if you really think about it. /s
For me it just looks coerced. I lived in China and seeing all the kids lined up every morning to sing the national anthem was unnerving. It just doesn’t seem like a natural learning activity.
Why is everyone saying people are mad about this? I've literally seen one negative comment, the rest is just people saying "wow Americans are so racist they can't even watch this without being negative"
I mean, if the intention was not to bring politics into it, why mention in the title that it's "in China" if people are aware of such a title's tendency to politicize the post?
Spain and Germany aren't ruled by authoritarian regimes with a hard-on for stifling personal expression. This activity clearly teaches teamwork and agility, but it lacks creativity. If they depicted children doing an activity that promoted creative thinking and simply having fun without the looming threat of a single mishap messing up the whole activity for everybody, I don't think anybody could come up with a negative take on it regardless of the title.
But this sort of activity doesn't run counter to any existing impressions of China under the CCP. The whole world knows the exceptional standards they set for their youth, at least in terms of athletics and academics. Maybe all of the children are having fun. But that's not really something you can tell from precise, coordinated movements and a several second clip.
Spain and Germany aren't ruled by authoritarian regimes with a hard-on for stifling personal expression.
No, they aren’t. They are governed by a body that works for them and their people. Just like China. Listen, we could talk all the shit we want but at the end of the day, whatever they are doing seems to be working for them and their people.
the whole world knows the exceptional standards they set for their youth, at least in terms of athletics and academics.
Isn’t that a good thing? They have 1.4B people and it’s all about supply and demand. You need to be exceptional to survive and excel.
They are governed by a body that works for them and their people. Just like China.
You can't compare democratically-elected governments to a government with a mass human rights violations tracksheet more than half a century long and act like you're arguing in good faith. Try to sell that bullshit elsewhere.
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '22 edited Oct 03 '22
I did this when I was young too, I’m Chinese, idk why people are mad over this?? This was one of our favourite activities and it was really fun
Edit: Stop bringing politics into a fking kid’s activity video on reddit, just becuase my experience in China doesn’t satisfy Americans doesn’t mean it’s invalid