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D"EESS BOYS BE PASSIN
"D's Boyz be passin"
EDIT: We really did well though XD we had the test the DAY after AC and studies the morning before... jus sayin
"D's Boyz be passin"
EDIT: We really did well though XD we had the test the DAY after AC and studies the morning before... jus sayin
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"to pass the grade" - to do what now?
Most American students don't ever have a single test that must be passed to advance to another grade. Here in California we have the CAHSEE to exit highschool, it's moderately controversial because if you speak absolutely no English you might fail it, maybe. Almost. But mostly you hit the next grade when it's next year.
Makes sense honestly, most people just aren't ready to learn anything properly until at least that age, no matter what young people might think about that. In this country we sort of view that time as a holding pattern until you become a real person. Getting to that point is simply not an achievement - if your education level is "highschool diploma" you're simply uneducated.
However, these guys are in college. Grades are different in college. First of all, you only need to maintain a GPA above 2.0 and courses tend to be designed to make getting As a pretty serious achievement. It has no grades, just a branching tree of course prerequisites from which you must eventually complete most of the leaves. The specific shit you must take tends to vary, most degree programs will have a few choices built in. A GPA above the minimum can be reported on a resume (a CV) and usually looks positive, though most employers don't give a rat's ass about it so long as you got the degree.
If you're thinking something along the lines of "that's pathetic" then I have to tell you that you're wrong, and possibly stupid. You're talking about a very old system in an extremely successful country that has basically written and rewritten the book on science, technology and business over and over and over again. Somehow the entire world looks at everything we do with disdain, in between sessions of buying everything we make by the bushel and thoroughly servicing our cock in the international politics game.
Most American students don't ever have a single test that must be passed to advance to another grade. Here in California we have the CAHSEE to exit highschool, it's moderately controversial because if you speak absolutely no English you might fail it, maybe. Almost. But mostly you hit the next grade when it's next year.
Makes sense honestly, most people just aren't ready to learn anything properly until at least that age, no matter what young people might think about that. In this country we sort of view that time as a holding pattern until you become a real person. Getting to that point is simply not an achievement - if your education level is "highschool diploma" you're simply uneducated.
However, these guys are in college. Grades are different in college. First of all, you only need to maintain a GPA above 2.0 and courses tend to be designed to make getting As a pretty serious achievement. It has no grades, just a branching tree of course prerequisites from which you must eventually complete most of the leaves. The specific shit you must take tends to vary, most degree programs will have a few choices built in. A GPA above the minimum can be reported on a resume (a CV) and usually looks positive, though most employers don't give a rat's ass about it so long as you got the degree.
If you're thinking something along the lines of "that's pathetic" then I have to tell you that you're wrong, and possibly stupid. You're talking about a very old system in an extremely successful country that has basically written and rewritten the book on science, technology and business over and over and over again. Somehow the entire world looks at everything we do with disdain, in between sessions of buying everything we make by the bushel and thoroughly servicing our cock in the international politics game.
What's this successful country you speak of? People look at the US like a joke. They did some stats on where America stands compaired to other countries in certain academic avenues, and I believe #14 in science and like 20+something in math.
What is our major exports too? Last I checked, we were sucking on China's teat (hense our HUGE dept to them and the over-abundance of cheap Chinese crap-quality "goods" that filled our markets)
As for politics, that's all held back by the fact we have a huge amount of weapons and a good army. If we didnt have those at our disposal, we would have been ran over or invaded decades ago. :/
What is our major exports too? Last I checked, we were sucking on China's teat (hense our HUGE dept to them and the over-abundance of cheap Chinese crap-quality "goods" that filled our markets)
As for politics, that's all held back by the fact we have a huge amount of weapons and a good army. If we didnt have those at our disposal, we would have been ran over or invaded decades ago. :/
"What is our major export" - intellectual property
"the over-abundance of cheap Chinese crap-quality "goods"" - you mean, everything that's manufactured ever? We ship out our manufacturing overseas where children of subsistence farmers will accept any salary level so long as they can live in a city and learn to read. Who do you suppose is in command of that relationship?
"compaired to other countries in certain academic avenues" - the success of education isn't measured by measuring education, that's what the SAT is for and it's shit. You measure education by measuring the things that come from education, basically the constituents of GDP.
"that's all held back by the fact we have a huge amount of weapons and a good army" - and what, those things just came in the mail for us one day?
Look, I don't really like the way the US does things either, but guess what: we're big. We dictate the terms of nearly every agreement we enter, we can tear the throats out of any small-time enemy we care to invent and take all their stuff and nobody tries to stop us... the US is a successful county by every quantifiable metric.
"the over-abundance of cheap Chinese crap-quality "goods"" - you mean, everything that's manufactured ever? We ship out our manufacturing overseas where children of subsistence farmers will accept any salary level so long as they can live in a city and learn to read. Who do you suppose is in command of that relationship?
"compaired to other countries in certain academic avenues" - the success of education isn't measured by measuring education, that's what the SAT is for and it's shit. You measure education by measuring the things that come from education, basically the constituents of GDP.
"that's all held back by the fact we have a huge amount of weapons and a good army" - and what, those things just came in the mail for us one day?
Look, I don't really like the way the US does things either, but guess what: we're big. We dictate the terms of nearly every agreement we enter, we can tear the throats out of any small-time enemy we care to invent and take all their stuff and nobody tries to stop us... the US is a successful county by every quantifiable metric.
1) Okay, ya got me on that part. Agreed.
2) Just cause we happen to be in command of that situation, doesn't make it a good situation. Oversaturating the market with low quality things to earn bigger profits for the ones in power isn't the 'best for the people' at heart :(
3) True, I didnt think of it that way.
4) No, but people should respect a person's or groups opinion, not fear the weapons that back that up. If we're going to claim to be the land of the free and all that, I dont think that people servicing our cock due to our military might is the right way to do it. A bit to close to a dictatorship style of politics if ya ask me. Then again, no-one did. n_n
Agreed fully on that last part, however I dont think being the big brutish thug that likes to push people around cause it's got the bigger set of fists is the best way to handle our stuff, and it certainly doesn't make us the 'best', as we try to believe. Shit, just look at the medical situation. Yeah, it might be decent, but ya gotta pay n arm and a leg to get anything done or rot in the streets, unlike almost every western style civilized entity out there :/
2) Just cause we happen to be in command of that situation, doesn't make it a good situation. Oversaturating the market with low quality things to earn bigger profits for the ones in power isn't the 'best for the people' at heart :(
3) True, I didnt think of it that way.
4) No, but people should respect a person's or groups opinion, not fear the weapons that back that up. If we're going to claim to be the land of the free and all that, I dont think that people servicing our cock due to our military might is the right way to do it. A bit to close to a dictatorship style of politics if ya ask me. Then again, no-one did. n_n
Agreed fully on that last part, however I dont think being the big brutish thug that likes to push people around cause it's got the bigger set of fists is the best way to handle our stuff, and it certainly doesn't make us the 'best', as we try to believe. Shit, just look at the medical situation. Yeah, it might be decent, but ya gotta pay n arm and a leg to get anything done or rot in the streets, unlike almost every western style civilized entity out there :/
Well the funny thing is, most of the downsides are just unpleasant side-effects for good sides. For example, the way we like to push the third world around. Fact is, the third world turns into the first fastest when the first world is big and strong, but it only gets to do so when it cooperates. Killing people to force cooperation sucks, but it's better than actually serving the interests of the third world because those interests are nearly always opposed to the interests of mankind as a whole. We don't want bottomless access to cheap crude oil, we need it. For the time being the entire world depends on it.
When we exploit the labor situation in china and india, it feels wrong to us because we're used to a tolerable minimum wage. What doesn't really click is that for chinese and indian citizens the deal looks entirely more kickass. They're coming down from the fields for these jobs. Probably we could do more to help out but, without the cheap rates our companies wouldn't outsource to them, and if they can't get the cheap rates at all it slows growth in the first world and again, that doesn't help anybody. Even pivoting these jobs back home is bad for the world, because the first world's strength is in its economy, not in its workforce.
And the medical situation... it's easy for other nations to talk about reducing prices for medical care because we do almost all the R&D. The situation here arises directly from the stratospheric costs of developing new medications. It sucks that people die because they can't afford it, that's really awful and we could definitely do more to help, but how many of those cases need to occur before it's more important than curing the incurable and lest we forget, scrambling to stay ahead of the drug-resistant-disease problem? Quite a few, I'd say. More than we're currently seeing.
There's a lot of inefficiency; we could do more good for less harm. It's just a given when you're interests are protected by somebody who hopes to profit along the way. Unfortunately, when there's inefficiency in global politics the loss tends to be measured in human lives. Show me a system where that's not true so I can call you naive as fuck.
When we exploit the labor situation in china and india, it feels wrong to us because we're used to a tolerable minimum wage. What doesn't really click is that for chinese and indian citizens the deal looks entirely more kickass. They're coming down from the fields for these jobs. Probably we could do more to help out but, without the cheap rates our companies wouldn't outsource to them, and if they can't get the cheap rates at all it slows growth in the first world and again, that doesn't help anybody. Even pivoting these jobs back home is bad for the world, because the first world's strength is in its economy, not in its workforce.
And the medical situation... it's easy for other nations to talk about reducing prices for medical care because we do almost all the R&D. The situation here arises directly from the stratospheric costs of developing new medications. It sucks that people die because they can't afford it, that's really awful and we could definitely do more to help, but how many of those cases need to occur before it's more important than curing the incurable and lest we forget, scrambling to stay ahead of the drug-resistant-disease problem? Quite a few, I'd say. More than we're currently seeing.
There's a lot of inefficiency; we could do more good for less harm. It's just a given when you're interests are protected by somebody who hopes to profit along the way. Unfortunately, when there's inefficiency in global politics the loss tends to be measured in human lives. Show me a system where that's not true so I can call you naive as fuck.
That's pretty similar down here. Then again, this was a Banana Republic and has been heavily influenced by the USA to the point that we have two kind of schools: The traditional, that starts on mid February and finishes in November and the Bilingual which is similar to the American one divided into semesters that start at the beginning of the second half of the year and end up on the end of the first half of the next year. I said similar because in order to pass the year your average has got to be C- or better or else you fail the year.
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