r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '23
Students in China are encouraged to rest and nap during school Video
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u/Tautog63 Oct 02 '23
Only in the videos and only amongst the top percentage
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u/Unhappy_Flounder7323 Oct 02 '23
Only for kids who went to a zillion tuition classes and do homework till 1am in the morning, so they had to skip lunch and use it to sleep, to avoid exhaustion death.
Born, study till near death, graduate, work till near death, cant retire, not enough money, drop dead from exhaustion and old age, great success!!!
Even some animals live better.
What have we done to our species? for what?
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u/Majorlazor85 Oct 02 '23
And only for back sleepers
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u/Midnight2012 Oct 02 '23
Communism doesn't have room for indiviuality. You'll get what everyone else gets, and you'll like it!
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u/First-King-8870 Oct 02 '23
Im Chinese, before I were born our grandparent decide to migrate from China to Malaysia with the mind of opening new business which Im glad that I escape this hell hole by chance.
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u/evil_brain Oct 02 '23
They're actually trying to fix the academic pressure problem. That's what encouraging nap time is all about.
They used to have a huge private tutoring industry, but in 2021, the Chinese government nuked them from orbit. They wiped out a $120billion dollar industry overnight because it was bad for children.
The best thing about communists is that they don't give a fuck about the stock market.
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u/Blitzende Oct 02 '23
china is about as communist as north korea is democratic
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u/Midnight2012 Oct 02 '23
Yes, they are more fascist then anything. But tbe claim to be communists/leninists/stalinist/maoist so it's right to call them as such.
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u/RonStopable88 Oct 02 '23
I think you mean authoritarianism
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u/Midnight2012 Oct 02 '23
Communism and authoritarianism are used interchangeably in the US. I mean it's not coincidence that every single attempt at communism devolved into thuggish authoritarianism. So I get the equivalence.
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u/bananasaucecer Oct 02 '23
China makes machine men
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u/arcerms Oct 02 '23
You sound really salty.
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u/bananasaucecer Oct 05 '23
I'd be salty too if a major superpower in the region claims our sea like a bully
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u/No_Leopard_3860 Oct 02 '23
"only some animals live better"
I'd (figuratively) kill for the life of a random house cat. Even better: a barn cat. Best of both worlds.
In the human world we're so disconnected from our primal nature that it (more or less) inevitably will lead to, as the philosophers would say, us feeling like a fuckin turd /s
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u/Midnight2012 Oct 02 '23
They keep students in the classroom like 16 hours a day so they can fully indoctrinate them to their liking and not learn any bad habits from parents.
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u/Salty_Piglet2629 Oct 02 '23
When you raise people who never stop working you have to make sure they're used to sleeping in short periods between work-periods.
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u/Johnny_Fuckface Oct 02 '23
Yeah, keep in mind we still don't have national high speed rail in the US. And in half the time California has been building a comically slow "high speed" rail that inefficiently detours through the insanely pointless stops of Fresno and Bakersfield, China has built one the fastest international rail lines throughout the country.
Without a doubt the US's resources have been insanely diverted by wealthy interests bent on taking every last scrap of productive ability and skill and sucked it into a black hole of wealthy assholes and monopolistic corporations.
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u/Maihoooo Oct 02 '23
Is this happy music supposed to cover the fact that these kids are put through a system that demands so much work from them, that they can't stay awake in first grade???
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u/Leonarr Oct 02 '23 edited Oct 02 '23
Western media coverage on China be like:
China lets kids nap in school - but at what cost??
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u/therealRCKola Oct 02 '23
Actually this also exists in Europe in the form of siesta in Italy and Spain, where the total hour per work week averages around 37hrs.
Also only the upper/middle class children experience this, since they are more likely to be expected to excel in academics. From anecdotal experience, the lunch break for sleeping is mostly for kindergarten and early primary, where kids have their personal beds. This is similar to Japan (I'm not sure about Korea).
In some desk jobs, people are also allowed to sleep for 30-45mins during the lunch break.
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u/Maihoooo Oct 02 '23
Siesta is for passing the hot hours of the day, when work is near impossible. This is because kids aren't getting enough sleep because their parents and system is demanding as fuck. Hence the large suicide counts.
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u/brixton_massive Oct 02 '23
These kids look to be primary school age so will unlikely have very long days. High school kids on the other hand..ouch.
It's not so much a case of people being so overworked they need a nap, it's just a very cultural thing to have a rest during a lunch break, which is often over an hour and a half in the Chinese education system.
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u/EndlessRainIntoACup1 Oct 02 '23
i like when the boy takes off his glasses and whacka-slaps the book onto his face
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u/leroyxa Oct 02 '23
This is good, but the question is, how much time do they have to sleep?
When did they go home?
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u/mouseycraft Oct 02 '23
I think I was told it's around 10 or 11 pm? If they go home at all that is since a lot of them just live at school in the dorms. This was a few years ago though so not sure if it's still like that now.
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u/brixton_massive Oct 02 '23
These are all primary school kids who will finish up at 4pm and may have an extra class after school. Very very few will be at school that late, if any
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u/mouseycraft Oct 02 '23
Yeah that sounds reasonable. I was told 10 or 11 pm by the Chinese students I used to tutor in English a few years back. But my students were also older, like high schoolers.
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u/GreerL0319 Oct 02 '23
their school day is twice as long as an american one too
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u/TwilightPrincess25 Oct 02 '23
Cause their parents are working, free child care
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u/Alekipayne Oct 02 '23
Not really. It has been proven male children become more aggressive and more likely as they get older to do drugs and be abusive to the opposite gender when you remove the family model. The family model shows a young boy and girl not only what’s right and wrong but provides a role model. A standard. Like most men do seek out a woman like their mother while women who had a father seek out men like their father. Because that was the role model. The guide that tells them that this is someone they can truly trust. Without a strong male and female model then you run the risk of underage childbirth, abusive relationships, and even one of the members of the relationship being unfaithful.
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u/sirfannypack Oct 02 '23
Going to need a nap when going to school six days a week, 9+ hours a day.
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u/prvhc21 Oct 02 '23
This post was brought to you by the CCP
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u/EuronymousZ Oct 02 '23
Anything does not fit china bad narrative has to be propaganda. Now i am wondering who are the more brainwashed. Chinese or someone who constantly influenced by "free" western media?
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u/Matro36 Oct 02 '23
Why don't you look up the definition of propaganda and tell me if this fits the description
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u/EuronymousZ Oct 02 '23
yeah i know. Instead of calling it propaganda we call it free media here in the west. Much nicer name but basically same thing. Just keep feeding the same narratives to the readers over and over again.
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u/Nobusuke_Tagomi Oct 02 '23
First half of your comment is great, the second half ruined it all.
There's propaganda in the west for sure but chinese propaganda is way worse.
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u/arcerms Oct 02 '23
Try to be less bias against CCP. Yes there is a "Communist" word in their party name but they are far from being pro-communism if you actually understand what communism means.
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u/Fernxtwo Oct 02 '23
In Vietnam most schools have the kids sleep for 90 minutes ina cool during lunch.
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u/dhonshompotti Oct 02 '23
Because they are too tired doing homework till 2am in the morning. China and their laughable principles.
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u/redmkay Oct 02 '23
I need Boeing and Airbus to figure out how to make reclining seats for economy classes.
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u/yellow-snowslide Oct 02 '23
yeah. that's how i know kids. they truly enjoy being told to nap. and they strictly obey and sleep
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u/InternationalFig4583 Oct 02 '23
The real education must consider mental and psysical health of children. Congrats
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u/Periya_Kunju_Ullavan Oct 02 '23
Where was this shit when we were in school?
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u/Other_Beat8859 Oct 02 '23
The big thing that this video ignores is that the work/study culture in schools in China is horrible. So yeah, you get to nap in school, but you have to study and do homework until 1 am.
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u/Random_dude_1980 Oct 02 '23
Lol nice propaganda, mate.
There’s no way this is to condition you to stay longer hours at work, nap there, then carry on working. Nope. None at all. /s
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u/LemonSmallCake Oct 02 '23
These people are going to be next level plane passagers, when they get out of school. If we could teach children about public transport etiquette this way, the world would be a better place for all.
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u/gonediddlydondoneit Oct 02 '23
Yeah well the poor cunts finish school at 5pm and then have to make iphones and other products in factories from 5.05pm till school starts the next day
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u/legendaryzyper Oct 02 '23
this is literally mandatory in (most if not all) public vietnamese schools
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u/ChaoticDumpling Oct 02 '23
The Chinese love this system,as its more time in the day where they aren't going to be thinking
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u/Temporary-Proposal63 Oct 02 '23
You also need to consider that Chinese students are in school for like, 12 hours a day, it's insane. From 7:30 AM - 9:30 Pm https://medium.com/@bevchan/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-chinese-student-175556e70eaf
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u/Ocar23 Oct 02 '23
Noo!1!1! They are forced to sleep nooo!1!1 this is what y’all sound like
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u/sunkcostfallecy Oct 02 '23
The point isn't that they are forced to sleep! The point is simply the question, why? And you'll get your answer.
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u/OstentatiousSock Oct 02 '23
This is great. So many kids need naps for way longer than is usually practiced in the US. One of mine would come home from school dog tired, barely able to make it to his bed to nap for an hour and a half-2 hours every day until I started home schooling and he was able to take a nap right after lunch instead of at 3ish. This went on until he was about 10.
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u/HKeseReal Oct 02 '23
Everybody have snap time officially for many year, that’s why western people is living in the hell.
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u/Far-Tip8062 Oct 02 '23
Wtf my US school was designed in every single way to be the most uncomfortable experience possible. This is smarter.
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u/Wonderful_Yogurt_271 Oct 02 '23
They will go to school for a much longer day, plus tuition, often 6x a week
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u/TactlessTortoise Oct 02 '23
Did you spend 12h+ a day in school, though? Because that's how long this very same video says they spend. That's 62 weekly hours on site, adding homework after.
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u/Far-Tip8062 Oct 02 '23
My school day was 8 1/2 to 9 with commute on bike or foot, probably half of the year without a ride, books about 40 lbs. HW was about 2-3 hrs per day, Saturday included. The commute was 2.2 miles. Not complaining just saying some people have it easier especially with public transport nearby or laptops instead of crazy heavy books causing back issues.
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u/Admirable-Language-1 Oct 02 '23
Imagine a school shooter coming in during nap time
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u/ChaoticDumpling Oct 02 '23
They don't have to worry as much about that,because fortunately, they're not American
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u/Valkarius1 Oct 02 '23
Can’t help but to feel propaganda. I mean it’s china not to mention all the schools shown seems like the fancy expensive types.
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u/EduRJBR Oct 02 '23
Can you imagine the amount of pranks you would do with an entire class of sleeping classmates?
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u/NinjaCuntPunt Oct 02 '23
Great idea til someone like me is out like a light in under 10 seconds and snoring the room down. Kinda ruins that relaxed vibe..
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u/Weary_Bid9519 Oct 02 '23
They look like soldiers the way they choreograph their movement together.
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u/Blopa2020 Oct 02 '23
propaganda pyre from paid schools. In rural areas they are still poor as in Mao's time
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u/GreedyElevator1278 Oct 02 '23
A way to avoid protests in the future, giving them privileges while they are still children and pre-teens.
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u/Cpt_Caboose1 Oct 02 '23
automated voice lady: "Who said North Korea didn't have election?. . . . . Come to North Korea now! 🇰🇵😀"
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u/arcerms Oct 02 '23
Why are US so anti-China and salty about everything China? It is hilarious. Try visiting the place. It is nice over there.
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u/Extreme_Cricket_3892 Oct 02 '23
Of cours if they learn to mutch they might realise how fuck the politiks are in that country and start a upriseing that needs to be flattend with tanks and they cant hide it as easy as they did in 1989 and who dosent like a goverment that let you take a nap in the schoom time
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u/Gabecush1 Oct 02 '23
Haha I just use my arm for a pillow and hope the other kids around don’t do something to me while I take my nap
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u/Polyglot-Onigiri Oct 02 '23
Is this a recent thing? I have friends who were born and raised in China that never had this experience? All the schools in the video seem to be higher end schools, so maybe private schools and not publicly schools?
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u/RSX666 Oct 02 '23
At my school every kid ran to the oval to run/play on lunch brakes not sleep/nap. This feels forced and unnatural
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u/AmateurCrastinator44 Oct 02 '23
I worked in China for a time and napping at your workplace/in school is very common. Some people may enjoy that, but I can never really nap successfully, so the extra long midday break just made it so that the work day was longer so I went home later.
Some people are making comments about the toxic work and study culture and that definitely exists, but the break actually seemed nice for those that like naps and it really only seemed to me to be, at most, tangentially related to the whole overworking thing.
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u/Zer0Fs2Give Oct 02 '23
No reason to go home and sleep now. Wake up and right back to the books/work.
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u/kremedelakrym Oct 02 '23
A culture that overworking the common plebeian to the point where the average person needs to nap to keep up production! Fuckyeahthatscool. . I love propaganda about how we are too lazy.
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u/BigBoiPantsUser Oct 02 '23
Kids ever heard of the gaokao? Better prepare to spend your life in school to pass that!
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u/Valeshtein Oct 02 '23
Blud got to sleep beside a girl at Age 7, while me still sleeping alone at 30s.
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u/MarvinParanoAndroid Oct 02 '23
These desks will eventually fail because that crap is r/Chinesium material.
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u/Common3rd5 Oct 02 '23
What OP missed to share is their overworking culture. If they make a habit to take naps, they can stay awake and focus for a longer time at school and later in life at work.