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But all parents who have children studying at home have not heard of the name of Haidian, and this place where "students are not crazy and do not survive" has the "good name" of the birthplace of the inner roll culture and the center of the candidate's inner roll.
In the past few decades, college entrance examination students and parents believe that they have experienced the fear of being dominated by "South Huanggang, North Huangzhuang", and today, decades later, although Huanggang has lost its style, Huangzhuang still stands on the map of China's education, issuing happy news every year, as if to "go further".
However, involution is not a Chinese characteristic, and this "excellent" and "positive" attitude to life is unified throughout the world.
Look across the ocean, the legendary United States, which liberates individuality and advocates freedom, their students there are also "rolling up life, rolling to death", and parents "chicken babies" are also more than that.
And Gu Ailing, who became famous and won the gold medal at last year's Winter Olympics and was praised by the media, is the linkage result of the Chinese chicken and baby mentality and American-style competitive education. In other words, Gu Ailing is the "dream ceiling" of Haidian parents' chicken dolls.
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"Chicken baby" is not a new word, mostly used to describe anxious parents who give their children chicken blood and urge their children to roll up on the learning track. And they have also coined many complementary terms for this term.
For example, "Qingwa" is an ordinary child; "Niu Baby" is a child who is very prominent in some aspects; The good ones of Olympian mathematics are called "Otousho"; Those with high English proficiency are called "English Niu"; Those who demand high-quality education are called "vegetarian chickens".
These bright classifications are simply poked in the hearts of those anxious middle-class parents, seeing that other people's children are "Austrian cows" and "British cows", do their own children want to be reduced to "Puwa"?
So gritting his teeth and also having to equip his children with a set of "vegetarian chicken", what piano chess, calligraphy and painting, dance gymnastics must be arranged, resulting in anxiety for the whole family.
In order to get a good school for their children, a group of middle-class families who can be called "wealth freedom" save money and buy school district houses.
Yes, priceless school district housing is not unique to China, and the existence of school district housing is simply the core force driving the skyrocketing housing prices in the United States.
Because the education progress of primary schools in the United States is very slow, anxious parents can simply not bear such a teaching speed, for fear of wasting children's precious learning time, they will search for domestic textbook exercises and give children to learn in advance.
In this way, a book of learning and thinking, Huanggang secret scrolls, and Haidian exercises, drifted across the ocean to the other side of the world to continue to torture children.
The previous Oscar-winning short film "Instantaneous Universe" tells the story of a Chinese parent "chicken doll", and the exaggeration of the parents' "chicken doll" in the short film may not even be able to catch up with Cai Meier, the author of "Tiger Mother Battle Song".
In the short film, their children cannot have grades other than A in the exam, they have to be full of grades to learn the piano, the only entertainment is to watch TV news, and the "wise" parents have clearly planned their children's future studies and careers, and are determined to send their children to the position of high-level talents in the United States.
Although film and television have certain exaggerated techniques, Chinese Americans who go to school in the United States know how this group of Chinese parents are chicken dolls, who have to attend cram schools since they were young, and began to prepare for academic ability assessment tests early, not only that, but even every homework and every exam of the child is stared to death.
Every day, parents think about how to brush their children's resumes, practice projects, and climb the relationship with Confucian schools, but any activity that can add points to the resume, they sharpen their heads to sign up and squeeze in.
We can go to the Chinese gathering area to see, there are more cram schools on the street than Chinese restaurants, and the special classes are even more red and green for you to choose. The teachers of the cram class there are amazingly qualified, and of course, the tuition fees that come with it are ridiculously high, but the parents of the "chicken and baby" grit their teeth and send their children to class.
Under such circumstances, the resume of each Chinese American is beautiful like adding 30 layers of filters, grade point average, academic ability assessment test scores are extremely high, musical instrument specialties are fully tested, and most of them will be accompanied by a sports with advanced taste, but playing alone, such as skating, swimming, gymnastics...
These dazzling, unified, expensive resumes that you can see at a glance have simply made the admissions department of the Ivy League school suffer from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), a resume laid out, you don't need to look at the name to know that this is a child of a chicken doll Asian family.
And according to the experience accumulated over the years, let them feel that the students who come out of this "chicken baby" have no real expertise and no stamina, and belong to the score test type players, and once they officially enter the school or society, they will immediately "return to the original form".
As a result, the admissions department of the Ivy League school would rather admit students of other ethnicities who do not have so rich resumes than Asians, for fear that recruiting a student who will take the exam will not help the development of the school.
As a result, Asian-American students, whether they are really "problem solvers" or really capable, are easily rejected when applying to Ivy League schools.
Of course, "chicken dolls" are not Asian characteristics, and Americans are also "chicken dolls", but the way is different from that of the Chinese. And their chickens and babies do not have any special tricks from the "chickens", or throw money, "fight" that way, but the local advantages of the people are smashed even more.
Even American chickens are more hierarchical, and some people have previously described the current state of American society, calling it "American Indianization", referring to the Indian caste system. The highest caste Brahmins (sacrificial aristocracy) in India are the top class of groups and justices in the United States; The second-level Kshatriya (political aristocracy) is the politician and CEO in charge of management; The Vaishya (commoners) of the first level are middle class, lawyers, doctors; Sudras (servants) are black-American and immigrants.
And the Chinese in the United States is very embarrassing, although it is recognized as high IQ, diligent and studious, but the "ceiling" of the Chinese level is also to the third gear (civilians), but the same level of Indians, blacks, but may have higher achievements.
Because the social structure of the United States does not like to accept Chinese, and does not care about the advantages of Chinese people who can take exams and get good grades, even students with high scores on academic ability assessment tests will still be considered good at testing when applying to schools, but lack ability.
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The parents of these "chicken babies" are quite well-intentioned, but not every "chicken" baby is as successful as expected. There are individual differences, there is resistance in the environment, and the result is the opposite.
A second-generation Chinese in Florida was interviewed to argue for racial equality, arguing that American college admissions discriminate against Asians.
His name is Jon, his high school grade point average is 4.65, and he also passed the academic ability assessment test with a high score, it can be said that Jon is a top student, but he applied to 6 well-known universities and was rejected one after another.
Believing that he was rejected because of his Asian status and that the so-called affirmative admissions were nakedly targeting Asian students, he sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in the Supreme Court.
However, in fact, the hapless Jon is clearly not the only one who has been rejected because of identity issues, he represents the current situation of this type of Chinese.
In California, where the Chinese population is the most dense, there is a learning atmosphere like the American version of Haidian, where children live a cram school childhood like domestic children on the other side of the world, and they have to be planned from birth how to go to a top school, and finally realize the "American dream" of their parents' generation.
In the International Mathematical Olympiad, the American team is almost all Chinese, they are at the top of various exams, it can be said that as long as there is a place for assessment, there are excellent Chinese Americans.
But these highlights are like limited-time gift packs that will inexplicably disappear as soon as you enter the university, and compared with our neighboring Indians, they do not have this feeling of lack of stamina. Many prestigious institutions, such as Harvard University and New York University, have Indian-American presidents and deans, as well as various public sector managers.
In Silicon Valley, a territory where Asian Americans are everywhere, there are even more Indian executives, but few Chinese can stand at the top.
There are few Chinese people at the top of the pyramid, and the front-line technical positions are full of Chinese who love "involution".
In addition to academic discrimination, the daily life of these Chinese Americans is also very unintegrated, and last year, on foreign social media, a group of second-generation Chinese in the United States addressed their parents, saying that they could not integrate into the mainstream white circle in the United States, and had a very painful life.
This is the case with minorities in the United States, where Americans simply do not want to integrate these people into mainstream culture. The parents of the first generation of immigrants to the United States know that they will never be able to integrate into the local area, so they are determined to raise their children, but they do not know that the United States, which cannot solve the racial problem, will not accept ethnic minorities to join.
In addition, the so-called integration of these immigrant Chinese is to some extent segregated, while other minorities, such as African Americans and Latinos, are forcibly bringing their own cultural systems, forming their own factions, interacting with the native culture of the United States, and then successfully integrating into the United States.
It has to be said that it is really not a good way for Chinese parents to try to make their children "excellent" through chicken dolls, so that the mainstream of the United States can recognize and accept them.
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Professor Fabrizio of Yale University wrote in a book published that the greater the gap between the rich and the poor, the more inclined to "chicken babies". When the level of resources in a region is much lower than the degree of talent growth in the region, children cannot only rely on excellence to reach the top, but must be called TOP to step into the threshold.
This involution "chicken baby" that spans the participation of Chinese and foreign people is an excessive struggle for scarce educational resources. The previous generation actually ate the dividends of education, and those born in the sixties and seventies, in time for the college entrance examination recovery, as long as they are admitted to the university, they can become the "superstructure" of society.
The blessing of these halos has raised parents' expectations of education very high, believing that investment in education can bring returns far beyond investment.
Now that economic development has entered a stable period, the dividends of education are not as amazing as in the past, and parents with unbalanced expectations and gains will want to seize the advantage through chicken dolls.
For children, just going to college can't do, you have to go to key universities, and if you want to go to the best university, you have to go to the best high school, and so on, learn English before school, and it is not difficult to understand that kindergarten is exposed to Olympiad.
But the involution of education will not continue to roll, I believe that in less than a generation, parents of "crazy chicken dolls" will understand that chicken dolls cannot change the fact that children are ordinary people.
There is only so much capacity in education, and continued involution is likely to cause marginal diminishing effects.
<< - Epilogue - · >>
The future direction is likely to return to basics, and the way of selecting talents may also increase from graduate schools to flexibility in thinking, for example, do they have a humanistic spirit and the ability to innovate?
Like Apple and Google in the United States, their employees are no longer concentrated in Ivy League schools, but students at San Jose State University, which is recruited in large numbers because of its outstanding creativity.
We must always believe that when the aura of "chicken baby" fades, education will no longer be "crazy", but will return to its original value.
In this regard, if you have any ideas, welcome to leave a message to discuss.