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16-year-old prodigy refuses to finish PhD until he gets a house

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If he doesn't watch that attitude, the Easter Bunny won't bring him any urine soaked Easter eggs on Sunday.
 
RavenSEAL said:
Most he can probably do with that degree is teach.

You wanna know how many benjamins a teacher makes in china?
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Not sure if serious?

You do realize a PhD in mathmatics can land you a variety of different jobs, most of which are high paying.
 
I'd love to hear how this guy justifies how having a PhD but no house is worse than having no PhD and no house.

RavenSEAL said:
Most he can probably do with that degree is teach.

You wanna know how many benjamins a teacher makes in china?
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Even if that were his only option, given the fact that he started college when he was ten, he'd be very well off. Maths is important to Chinese people, and appeals to authority almost as much.

But that's not his only option. From what I hear, consulting companies love maths graduates because it shows that you can think analytically and systematically, which is important.
 
RavenSEAL said:
Most he can probably do with that degree is teach.

You wanna know how many benjamins a teacher makes in china?
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I dunno. Remains to be seen whether the kid is entirely book smart, ir has other acumen as well. Although we all know lots of Asians are ONLY book smart right?
 
In other news: A Chinese doctorate in math is completely f*ing useless, meaningless and they hand the f*ers out to 16 year olds.

Seriously: I don't care how "smart" the kid is, there is a seat-time component to school for a good reason.
 
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In china there is a strong recognition of the value of "YOU". Your first name is actually your family name, you are an extension of the family unit. This recognizes how much your family and overall the society you are embedded in makes "you". Everyone that surrounds you, everyone that you interact with, everyone that you care about either positively or negatively is a reflection of "you" because "you" are part of them. Anything that has intentions toward "you" is part of you, "you" are part of anything you have intentions toward.

When a love one dies we mourn because part of our being has died. When someone angers us it is because we had expectations regarding shared intentions that have been violated.

This 16 year old was lied to by his parents. This is not a big deal for you or me because we're asshole "self made" Americans. But the fact is that for him, this is as much a violation of trust, as much a violation of what it is to be "him" as it would be if your left arm started punching you in the face.

All of this to say:
So, I'm going to go with alky 😛
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No way given this kid's level of connectivity with friends, family and society. Also, 160-internet-IQ is WAY to low for this kind of intellectual ability.
 
DixyCrat said:
In china there is a strong recognition of the value of "YOU". Your first name is actually your family name, you are an extension of the family unit.
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You're drawing the wrong conclusion from this. My Chinese surname is the first part of my full name, that's true. But I have a 'first' name, or given name, that everyone calls me. It's not that much different from English, except that the order is switched.

Maybe a better example of what you're trying to say is actually the roman tria nomina; while familiar praenomina were used by friends and relatives, mostly (especially later on in Roman civilization) only the hereditary nomina and cognomina were used in records.

This 16 year old was lied to by his parents. This is not a big deal for you or me because we're asshole "self made" Americans. But the fact is that for him, this is as much a violation of trust, as much a violation of what it is to be "him" as it would be if your left arm started punching you in the face.
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I'm Chinese and I don't see the big deal. They did what they felt they had to do, given the circumstances, to keep their child from completely going off the rails. The bigger deal is that the parents put up with the kid's foolishness for so long. If I acted like that towards my parents, genius or not they would have kicked me out.
 
DixyCrat said:
No way given this kid's level of connectivity with friends, family and society. Also, 160-internet-IQ is WAY to low for this kind of intellectual ability.
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what's a 160 internet IQ? I didn't take online IQ tests 10 times to come up with my score. I was formally tested.
 
Via said:
He's going to be a joy when he hits 25.
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Mr. Pedantic said:
You're drawing the wrong conclusion from this. My Chinese surname is the first part of my full name, that's true. But I have a 'first' name, or given name, that everyone calls me. It's not that much different from English, except that the order is switched.
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Interesting, this isn't the impression I was given by my Chinese professor. Are there providential differences? The difference in the collectivism of the society as opposed to the US is something i'm sure of.


I'm Chinese and I don't see the big deal. They did what they felt they had to do, given the circumstances, to keep their child from completely going off the rails. The bigger deal is that the parents put up with the kid's foolishness for so long. If I acted like that towards my parents, genius or not they would have kicked me out.
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Fair enough. I had a professor tell me "white parents are afraid of their kids: their kids tell them 'you hit me i call the cops' my kid tried that Hahahaha! I tell him 'here the phone, you call, you don't want me buy you food and clothes no more, GOOD, you go then!'"
 
DixyCrat said:
Interesting, this isn't the impression I was given by my Chinese professor. Are there providential differences? The difference in the collectivism of the society as opposed to the US is something i'm sure of.
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Obviously there are differences in society. Really, most cultures are more collectivist than Western civilization, and there is some merit in what you say. But that doesn't mean that our culture is built around collectivism and we are all thought of only as our parents' children. Family is a big deal and all that, and in cases of personal achievement the focus is more on the family that helped make that achievement possible. But we still say 'that kid's really smart and he must work really hard', not 'that kid's family is really good, enabling him to work that hard'.


Fair enough. I had a professor tell me "white parents are afraid of their kids: their kids tell them 'you hit me i call the cops' my kid tried that Hahahaha! I tell him 'here the phone, you call, you don't want me buy you food and clothes no more, GOOD, you go then!'"
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That's pretty much it. Raising kids in China has changed from what it used to be, 'back in the day', from what my parents say. Chinese parents do a lot more of the ultraprotective Tiger Mom now, they're literally living through their kids for 20 years or more. But if I tried a stunt like that my parents would probably have just kicked me out after a while. And I reckon here, if that happened, I'd be able to find a job and enough money to get me by. But not in China.
 
Shlong said:
I have but then again they're not first generation, they were born & raised in America.
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Oh, those are hopeless. They have been assimilated and more into "Jersey Shore", "Housewifes of xxxxxx" and stupid reality shows.
 
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