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U.S. kids want to be famous on YouTube; Chinese kids want to go to space: survey
- RenRav 7y agoGive them 5 years and China will be the same.
- adamnemecek 7y agoThe larger question is why do kids want to be teachers?
- Joof 7y agoMaybe teachers have some sort of important, authotity-figure type role to some children.
- whoevercares 7y agoTBH when I was a kid I said the same thing, only in front of my teacher so that she could treat me better lol
- rogual 7y agoIsn’t YouTube banned in China? If so it’s not surprising the kids there don’t respond as strongly to the idea of being a “YouTuber”.
- officialjunk 7y agoThere are many video and streaming platforms in China even with integrated chat and tips.
- yorwba 7y agoMany Chinese children aged 8 to 12 probably don't have their own device for watching videos all day.
- tibbydudeza 7y agoChina is the US after WWII and before the Space Race ... optimism ... the can do attitude ... a manifest destiny and headed for greatness. The US now is like the last days of the Roman Empire ... look at who they elected a Caligua figure ... instead of lead in the water they have opoids to dull the masses.
- danbolt 7y agoI mean, some parts of the US do have lead in the water.
- gimboland 7y agoI upvoted you, but what is up with so many comments here starting with "I mean, "? I assume that if you wrote it, you meant it.
- danbolt 7y agoHmm, once you mentioned it, I'm not 100% sure why I wrote it. I certainly speak with starting sentences with "I mean", but I use it mostly as a filler?
- spectramax 7y agoThis is a very glib analogy. Not only was US after WWII vastly different than China today, your view of US crumbling like the Roman Empire did is also unsubstantiated.
- whoevercares 7y agoNot sure about the kids, lots people around my age in China (“post 95’s”) wish to be “influencers” on douyin
- badrabbit 7y agoBoth types of kids desire the same thing: to contribute and be relevant to society as they perceive it. American society has plenty of astronauts and space over acheivers. American society is also very much unplugged from the rest of the planet, so much so that I can say most Americans don't consider good image of their country in the eyes of the non-western world a priority. If this was the cold-war era, American kids might have wanted to help their country look better as compared to the communist world. The difference is that of being the winner and being the losers trying to catch up to the winner. China might be second place in many things but as they say, second place just means you're the first loser. There is a reason "made in china 2025","The 100 year matathon" and "belt and ring project" all have competitive undertones. America is also an individualistic society where everyone seeks what makes themselves look good and profit while east asian societies tend to be more hive-minded (For a lack of a better expression). I dislike both selfishness and prioritizing the greater nation over your own immediate family and community. If the Nash equilibrum of economics and game theory holds true, I wager the American perspective will result in long term prosperity fot all that follow it, but of course that model does not take into account strife and external malicous actors whose end goal is not to profit but to destroy.
- thefujin 7y agoKids in USSR also wanted to be astronauts and look what happened to their country
- Red_Tarsius 7y agoOne of the worst nonsequitur I've ever read. Having dreams and ambitions that go beyond making money is a positive trait. Edit: The USSR also achieved much more than your dismissing post implies.
- implodedCavity 7y agoI think the U.S. has bigger problems. China's problem is essentially the same. It matters much less to aspire to either of these goals, when the reality faced by either group of kids is such that, they'll probably be losers 99.9% of the time, no matter what they wanted. Doctor, Police, Firefighter, Soldier. Doesn't matter. Society will suck the life out of them any way it can.