Children's different treatments

When talking about children’s different treatments in both China and USA, I think the biggest difference is the concept of “choices”. In fact, a huge number of Chinese children do not have many choices during their growing up, in other words, we had better followed our parents or the whole society guidelines. Sometimes children feel so tired, because they have a big stress to be the person which their parents want them to be. It is normal that children have a lot of homework even they are only 6 or 7 years old. The relationship between children and their parents just like students and teachers. While on the other hand, as I said before, most Chinese families only have one child. That brings a lot of question to the young generation. Many of them feel lonely in spirit because no siblings share their happiness and sorrow.

Compared with China, I think American children have more colorful childhood. As I know form my friends or TV shows, American children have more choices during their own lives. They do not have much stress to satisfy their parents. I saw from my host family that children in family are totally equal to parents. They are encouraged to express their own ideas and critical thinking, even though some of these are very different with their parents’.

Actually, with the world contact with each other more frequently, a lot of Chinese parents change their ways to educate children and become much more flexible, but homework is still a big problem for kids. I am so lucky for my great parents, and they gave me a very beautiful childhood with no pressure to be a successful person in their mind. They just want me and my younger brother fell happy on both physical and mental in our whole life. Expect the boring homework, I had a perfect childhood.

Two Kinds of Families

          When talking about family, Chinese families had been divided two kinds. First is modern family, the other is traditional family. Most modern family existed in cities, and they are similar to US families. Young couples do not live with their parents and have higher divorce rate. Because young generations do not live together with their grandparents and other relatives, their relationships may not so close to each other.

         However, the traditional kind is really different. I lived in a traditional family for 20 years. In my family, my grandparents, parents, my uncle’s family, my brother and me we lived together. Divorce is seen as a shame in most traditional families, so this kind of family is more stable. My childhood was spent with all my cousins. The relationships between whole family members are so strong. Many friends envied me have a big family, but sometimes I felt uncomfortable for the conflicts. Different generations have different thoughts. Sometimes young generations have more conflicts with the oldest generations. And the relationship between mothers and grandmothers are a big problem in traditional families. Although there are many problems, I still love to live in a traditional family. Just as grandma in the Latehomecomer, I think the whole family should get together. Family is the most important part of our life. In a big family I can feel more warmness and never lonely. Learn to deal with different relationships’ conflicts also good for our ability for future.

        There are another big difference between Chinese family and US family----the number of children. In China, every couple should only have one child. Giving birth to more children will be fined. The reason about this policy is our large population. Most of US families inhave more children. In my opinion, I like to have borthers and sisters. And I have a younger borther, my family were fined for a big deal money when my borther was born.

Differences In Voting

Two weeks ago I experienced my first voting in US. Even I did not have te right to vote, I felt so exciting. This is the first time I am so close to voting. I went into the voting house with my friend just pass by, but to my surprise, the officers there are very welcome us to come. After giving the "observer" card, we could sit at the observer's seat and watched how the whole voting going. It was very interesting that we were not the only visitors, while I found 6 persons sit behind the register desk and watched carefully. One officer told us that they come from the two parties which involved in the voting. Observers can’t say anything with the voters in the voting house. Voters should register first and then fill in a form about some information. At last they could take the form to the private desks to finish and put it in the reading machine at the exit.
        I felt so excited about what I saw!! I knew that this voting is to choose the Government and Congress of Wisconsin State. Every US citizen who reached 18 years old and live or study in Wisconsin State have right to vote. My roommate Sarah is a freshman this year. She had expected the voting for long time, and she said it is very important for an American adult to vote. As we all know that the political system in US is followed with Baron de Montesquieu’s famous theory “checks and balance”. They separated the power and made three state organs to charge different parts. And every part is independent.

While in China, even though we have voting, but I never see anybody who I known go to vote. Our voting seems a very mysterious thing that only little people know how it is going.  Even I had learned about our political system in high school, I still confused about how it work. I think China have a big space to improve our political system. I really hope one day every adult can vote in China in such a public way. The most important is that I hope the improving process is peaceful

Chinese minorities

China is a big family made by 56 nations, and the largest group is Han people. The other people come from 55 different minorities. These minorities have their own customs and traditions. Chinese government made some laws to protect minorities’ rights.

 

           These 55 minorities’ customs and traditions are different from each other. It can be seen easily from their traditional clothes and religions. Most minorities’ clothes are colorful and stand for variety of meanings. Such as Miao, every Miao girl should prepare their own bride dress by themselves since they were very young. The quality of the dress can show whether you are a good wife. A lot of minorities have their own original religions, such as some of them believe in sun, moon or a kind of nature thing. The most famous minority religion in China is Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan people are known for their pious belief. Every year, a large number of Tibetan people will go to pilgrimage, and it is really a hard work.

           Chinese government pays attention to help minorities people improve their life and respect their own customs and religions. So we have 5 minorities’ autonomous regions. These regions are charged by special government which made by their own minority people. Besides that, minority students have more help to enter college than Han people. They have 20 extra scores in the college exams.

     Even though we have some protections for minorities, they still struggling in their poor condition. Maybe keeping develop tourism and trying to set up their unique industry will give more hope.

Are you vote today!

        Today is the voting day! This is the first time I am so close to voting, even though I do not have the right to vote. I went into the voting house with my friends just pass by, but to my surprise, the officers there are very welcome us to come. After giving the "observer" card, we could sit at the observer's seat and watched how the whole voting going. It was very interesting that we were not the only visitors, while I found 6 persons sit behand the register desk and watched carefully. One officer told us that they come from the two parties which involved in the voting. Observers can not say anything with the voters in the voting house. Voters should register first and then fill in a form about some imformation. At last they could take the form to the private desks to finish and put it in the reading machine at the exit.
        I felt so excited about what I saw today!! I knew that this voting is to choose the Government and Congress of Wisconsin State. Every US citizen who reached 18 years old and live or study in Wisconsin State have right to vote. My roommate Sarah is a freshmen this year. She had expected the voting for long time,and she said it is very important for a American aldut to vote. While in China, even though we have voting, but I never see anybody who I kown go to vote. Our voting seems a very mysterious thing that only little people know how it is going.  I really hope one day every adult can vote in China in such a public way.
         One thing I felt so funny that every voter left voting house would be given a little tag which write"Are you vote today?"