News:

It is better to set off a nuclear bomb, than to sit and curse the dark.

Main Menu

Interesting article about grade/degree theft in China

Started by Da6s, July 27, 2009, 09:12:41 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Da6s

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/world/asia/27china.html?_r=1&hp


Pretty shitty to have happen, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the rise in the coming years.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Jenne

Wow, unsurprising, but very very sad.  And the chances of changing the system whereby these documents are so very important will only happen when enough rise up against the corruption to change it.