What the heck is wrong with China??

[blinky8225]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
How the hell do they know that they're any good at swinging on things and doing flips when they're 3? They can barely walk...

They don't; they just make an educated guess and take a big sample size. Sometimes they guess wrong, and if they do, they're thrown back out on the street.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
How the hell do they know that they're any good at swinging on things and doing flips when they're 3? They can barely walk...

They make clones of the girls then hyper-accelerate their growth. After the fully grown clones are evaluated for athleticism they are then consumed for food.

 

[StormRider]

Originally posted by: blinky8225
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08...2&sq=gymnastics&st=nyt

The drive to attain perfect gymnasts borders on inhumane. There are talks of sexual abuse, stunted growth, and thousands of broken girls. One girl couldn't even menstruate properly until she was 20. While what you see on TV is beautiful, there are thousands of girls that were thrown away and had their childhoods stolen from them for each one that you see.

Just for clarification -- the article you linked to was mainly talking about gymnasts in the US and not China.

 

[jdini76]

Originally posted by: d33pt

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: invidia
This shit happens everywhere, including the US. Don't think there aren't any US parents out there that don't push their kid for over-achievement and pride.

Pushing your kids is one thing. Turning them over to the government so you can live a more comfortable life is quite another.

don't worry..plenty more kids where those came from.

Actually there isn't. China has a law that a family can only have 1 child.

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: waggy
you don't think that nearly the same thing happens in the US? they ahd a report about one of the gymnastics girls in the US. She moved out at like 9 and had visits with family a few times a year.

it's not forced by the family and funded all by the government (basically forced)

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: jdini76

Originally posted by: d33pt

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: invidia
This shit happens everywhere, including the US. Don't think there aren't any US parents out there that don't push their kid for over-achievement and pride.

Pushing your kids is one thing. Turning them over to the government so you can live a more comfortable life is quite another.

don't worry..plenty more kids where those came from.

Actually there isn't. China has a law that a family can only have 1 child.

rich families can have more by just paying a fine

 

[SSSnail]

In a nation of 1 billion + and so few opportunities, they'll take what they can get to be somebody. You and yours would too, trust me on that one.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

During the women's individual final, they mentioned that Nastia Liukin's father had said "they wouldn't accept second. Only first is good enough." The quote really made it sound as though if Liukin had lost, she would have been disowned, and potentially killed. So it's clear that the drive to push young girls in gymnastics knows no nation. Quite frankly, it's absurd.

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
During the women's individual final, they mentioned that Nastia Liukin's father had said "they wouldn't accept second. Only first is good enough." The quote really made it sound as though if Liukin had lost, she would have been disowned, and potentially killed. So it's clear that the drive to push young girls in gymnastics knows no nation. Quite frankly, it's absurd.

that's because in his mind's eye, nastia deserves nothing less than a gold. They wouldn't accept second because he thinks that she deserves so much more. That's how fathers/parents think.

At least the US government doesn't scout out kids and put them into programs where they have to live and breathe their sports everyday (and parents are just going along with the program)