Agree with what you have described. It reflects how these students were brought up, the family, social, and education system. Universities expect students to be independent, possess essential skills, and be self disciplined. In China, I was told, that university students are treated like school students. I have seen a case in which a Chinese international student locked himself in his room for days weeks, did not even answer phone calls from his parents in China. The university staff needs to break in to find him playing computer games. Self discipline (or lack of), and inability (or unwilling) to pick up life skills are two problems that plague many Chinese international students more than other nationalities. There are some brilliant Chinese international students (of course). I met some of these and asked what they learned from studying overseas. Typical answers are: learn to be independent, life skills, human relationships, respecting others. Thanks again for this episode.
I think students going overseas should be given an orientation course ( boot camp) to learn life skill before these students drag Chinese students’ reputation through the mud. In fact in Singapore our primary school and junior middle school students have one or two lessons of 10:28 life skill lessons like cooking cleaning ect. 頁老师 I would not blame this poor girl. It will take may be couple of years to make her adapted to our ‘ type of habits and life’ .
We do have orientation for new students. Problem is, some of them do not listen....... Like this girl at my house, some of the problems I talked to her a few times, but she still doesn't care..... No changes at all..... Messy as always untill she left....
I had the impression that school hostels and many students sharing a room is quite common in China, even at middle school levels? How true is this? Do you think most of these students you mentioned about come mainly from the group that have stayed home all their lives, having their parents taking care of them all the time?
In China, most of students go home every night. Parents or grandparents will take care of them. They have too much homework to do, so parents just make sure all their meals are ready for them, their change of clothes are ready for them, so students dont need to think of anything else except studying....
@@Jamesyezi thanks! actually if you perform a web search for "celebrities messy bedroom" you will also see that many US celebrities are just as filthy too... and the behavior seems to be more prevalent for child stars... too rich at too young age for anyone to control them... lack of social awareness of how their actions affect those around them...
I think it's the parents' duties to teach their children life skills. From Young, my children have to make their bed. Clean their bowl and put their dirty clothes into the washing machine. Our helper was so surprised when my younger son cleaned not only his plate, but also all the pots and pans because he was the last person to have dinner.
