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Originally Posted by Ivorytickler
Unfortunately, the crop of students in college now, watched their parents live it large and that's the way they think life is. I have a bad feeling that the suicide rate among the 20 somethings will be high for this generation. They cannot attain the lifestyle they grew up with even with hard work and they don't believe they should have to work hard for anything.
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That's the difference with the 20 somethings in China, whose parents were forced out of school during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960-1970s. Many of the parents' generation never finished elementary school as a result, but vowed to send their kids into college.
China middle school classroom:
http://voices.thinkingbeyondborders.org/files/photo/11272008-112914/China%20Classroom.JPG (broken link)
The ones wearing the red neck scarf are honor students with high grades and extracurriculars.