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Chinese University Tops MIT in Engineering Rankings

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Re: Chinese University Tops MIT in Engineering Rankings

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To those that believe that US system is rotten and ineffective and think that Chinese are doing something right because they are Chinese I can tell you only one thing. NEVER TRUST A COMMUNIST REGIME. Even if you compare millionaires to millionaires the quality of life in China is far worse than in the USA. Never trust a communist propaganda. Never ever do that. The gov and chinese in general are known for trying to s…

Ahahaha! China is not the Soviet Union. It's a capitalist society like almost anywhere else, and I'm positive that being rich in China rocks (apart from the air pollution).

hahaha Have you ever lived there to have any sort of clue what you're talking about? Jeeze, I love the Internet sometimes.

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To those that believe that US system is rotten and ineffective and think that Chinese are doing something right because they are Chinese I can tell you only one thing. NEVER TRUST A COMMUNIST REGIME. Even if you compare millionaires to millionaires the quality of life in China is far worse than in the USA. Never trust a communist propaganda. Never ever do that. The gov and chinese in general are known for trying to s…

What? You mean the People's Republic of Capitalism?

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To those that believe that US system is rotten and ineffective and think that Chinese are doing something right because they are Chinese I can tell you only one thing. NEVER TRUST A COMMUNIST REGIME. Even if you compare millionaires to millionaires the quality of life in China is far worse than in the USA. Never trust a communist propaganda. Never ever do that. The gov and chinese in general are known for trying to s…

Ahahaha! China is not the Soviet Union. It's a capitalist society like almost anywhere else, and I'm positive that being rich in China rocks (apart from the air pollution).

Or getting caught in a clamp down and being put in front of a firing squad to "Pour encourjay lays ortras" As the Late Terry Pratchett put it.

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YES - most people in technology here are just too eager to build things, to the detriment of any long term strategy. But in other industries I've met locals who are very able critical thinkers and so there is hope. The common thread amongst them is time studying abroad though...

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There might be less critical thinking but probably more than you think. The core Chinese culture is advocating avoiding conflicts, and the best way to achieve that to chinese is a hierarchical order. The boss determines what to do, the subordinates do it. Your engineers might very well have some questions, but questioning any person other than their subordinates is against their instinctual habbit. If you want to "see" critical thinking in your team, you need serious and even creative effort to encourage it.

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Ahahaha! China is not the Soviet Union. It's a capitalist society like almost anywhere else, and I'm positive that being rich in China rocks (apart from the air pollution).

Then you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. And the air pollution in China is something you can't imagine. The VW scandal is nothing compared to chinese air pollution. And China is far worse than the former Soviet Union because they have more money and more control. Being lower class in China is far worse than in former states of the soviet union.

You talk a whole lot, but you've never addressed his point that "it would rock being rich in China". (I am not taking a side).
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