Posted on 01/28/2010 5:28:06 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China's Ant Tribe: millions of unemployed college grads
Despite China's fast-growing economy, many Chinese college grads are struggling to find jobs or scraping by on meager salaries. Beijing worries that this new group - the "Ant Tribe" - could pose a threat to political stability. Temp Headline Image
By Peter Ford Staff Writer
posted December 21, 2009 at 5:28 am EST
Beijing —
Back when Deng Kun was in college, studying biomedical engineering, he imagined himself working for a company like GE by now, helping to design state-of-the-art medical equipment.
Instead, he spends a lot of his time in the cramped and chilly room he shares with a friend in the outskirts of Beijing, playing video games or trying to line up a job as a salesman.
Mr. Deng moved to the capital when he graduated, he says, because “I thought there would be a lot of opportunities here.” He soon found out, though, that “it is not very easy to find a job as an engineer.”
Deng is a member of the “Ant Tribe,” as sociologist Lian Si has dubbed the swelling ranks of underemployed or underpaid Chinese university graduates frustrated by their failure to fulfill their ambitions.
"Ants are smart” Dr. Lian explains. “They are relatively weak individually but if you don’t pay attention to them they can cause a big disaster. There is a Chinese saying that a 10,000 mile dam can be breached by a swarm of ants.”
That threat has not escaped the attention of the government. Earlier this year the State Council, China’s cabinet, issued a notice warning that the financial crisis had “increased the pressure on graduate employment” and urging ministerial and regional authorities to “put college graduates at the top of their employment agenda.”
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Since O-Nothing is so great at organizing, send him to Red China and let him organize the nothing there into more nothing and leave us the hell alone.
The disgruntled ants here fool around on Facebook and voted for the stupid Kenyan islamo-marxist.
Never underestimate the Chinese, especially the educated and smart youth. Those ants can breach any dam. They have Sun Tzu and calculus.
Well, at least the objective of the Chi-com educated university grad is to destroy us while the American university grad is to destroy us as well. The only difference is their leader is much smarter than ours.
China spent $600+ billion building a whole new city called Ordos, 30km from the old Ordos. Its basically an empty city.
As a matter of fact google “empty city” china, you can even find news reports on youtube
Is there a way to send our commie libs to that city? They love communism anyway.
I saw a great video on it a couple months ago. I believe the link was posted on FR.
Not enough guns to pull it off, for now.
We have the same problem in the US. They played a big part in electing President Obama. The solution, of course, is for government to stop subsidizing college education. If there’s a real demand from employers for people with certain qualifications, then employers will either provide the education themselves on a part-time basis, to people already working for them in junior positions, or will reliably hire enough graduates at high salaries that students enrolled in serious programs of study that lead to well-paying jobs will be able to get private loans. The number of students majoring in garbage like “creative writing” and “black studies” would promptly plummet, as would the oversupply of students with serious intent but marginal ability who are majoring in physical sciences, math, etc.
The extra Chinese males, created by gender abortions, are also this age, which is a far greater spark for violence than this temporary economic problem. Same with India, same with all Muslims... they make too many cannon fodder, er, extra males.
However, you can’t argue that China and India have effected a miracle economic turnaround and limiting the population growth was a crucial reason, without which poverty would have continued unabated. Poverty continues in Catholic and Muslim dominated countries chiefly due to extraordinary, unsustainable population growth.
"Society" is a politically-correct synonym for the Chinese Communist Party.
We can be thankful we don't have that problem here in Liberal-Land Obama-Ville, thanks to the fast food industry.
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One difference is that in some Muslim populations, they are encouraged to breed, breed and breed again, to maximize the Muslim population. Exactly the opposite of the Chinese. That is why we face an Islamic armageddon in the coming century. They will replace the native populations in many European and African countries before long.
I'd have to disagree. Low population growth doesn't result in prosperity - prosperity results in low population growth. The fastest growth years of American economic history were those in which the population was growing in leaps and bounds, when the average family had half-a-dozen kids. Ditto for the high growth East Asian countries. Their high growth years correlated with large families. Now that their economic growth rate is slowing down (from the high single digits to the mid-single digits, and occasionally low single digits), their population growth is about to turn negative. The real problem with poor countries has nothing to do with population growth, and everything to do with bad economic policies and a lack of basic law enforcement combined with corruption in government and business alike.
Gee, a lot of the compute science graduates were scoring darn near perfect scores on the GRE. . .
"Princeton, N.J. (Aug. 26, 2002) --An investigation revealing improper sharing of questions from the GRE Computer Science Subject Test by students in China, including Hong Kong, and India has resulted in the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Board instructing ETS to cancel administration of the test in these countries and limit administration worldwide.
"The security breach is similar to one recently announced that forced the temporary suspension of the computer-based GRE General Test in parts of Asia. As a result of this latest breach, which also involved students illegally sharing memorized questions over the Internet, the GRE Board and ETS have announced that:
"the November 2002 administration of the GRE Computer Science Test has been cancelled worldwide,
"the Computer Science Test will only be administered in December 2002,
"unlike prior years, there will be no April 2003 Computer Science Test administration, worldwide,
"the GRE Computer Science Test will not be administered in India and China, including Hong Kong, in the 2002-03 testing year . . . ."
Another article from a few years ago..
PRINCETON, New Jersey (AP) -- Computer-based versions of the Graduate Record Examination will be suspended in four Asian countries after a yearlong investigation uncovered Asian-language Web sites with answers to the test.
Current and past questions from the graduate admissions exam were illegally obtained by test takers and displayed on Web sites based in China and Korea, according to the Educational Testing Service, which administers the test.
The investigation found that the average verbal scores in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea had risen significantly. Test officials attribute the rise to the Web sites, which were written in Chinese and Korean.
"We looked at score changes in 40 countries and noticed a significant rise in only these countries," said Carole A. Beere, the chairwoman of the GRE board.
Only the paper version of the GRE General Test will be available in the four countries on the next two testing dates: November 23, 2002, and March 15, 2003. The change is expected to affect more than 55,000 students each year.
ETS would not reveal when the answers were posted on the Internet nor when it noticed scores increasing.
"Every year we'd get someone from China who had high verbal scores on the GRE then had little or no knowledge of English when he got to the classroom," added Howard Lijestrand, graduate adviser at the University of Texas.
Bob Schaeffer of Fair Test, which monitors standardized testing, is pleased the computer version of test will be suspended in the four countries. But he said it is only a matter of time before U.S. applicants find out about the Web sites.
The GRE is taken annually by more than 400,000 applicants to graduate programs in the arts, humanities, sciences and engineering.
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Have to have faith that this cannot happen today..
The links to these articles were no longer there.
Sounds like a good idea.
There are a lot of FReepers on facebook...
China will implode in the next 20 years. The economic miracle that people think it is, is smoke and mirrors. It is more ethnically diverse than the old Soviet Union. 900 million people still live without indoor plumbing and electricity. Think about that. 3X the population lives in abject poverty.
Contrary to what people think, they do not have a central command and control structure. Beijing is the center of the communist party, but the military is paid by the local governments. Shanghai is the richest province and often tells Beijing where to go.
They will either have a civil war or be able to drum up enough nationalistic fervor to have a war with Russia over their resource rich borderlands. Calculating that the Russians won’t have the juice to stop them. They won’t screw with Japan, because China’s navy sucks, and Taiwan will play for keeps and cause them to lose face. Taiwan will immediately target the three gorges damn.
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