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Should we be worried that this job drain is happening? It is hampering our economy, but was inevitable even before mass globalization. “Geography is history” and America is now facing the balancing of a global economy. This just means that we have to stay competitive in the global economy. I loved what was […]

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Tote bags. Now there’s a novel idea. I never knew they even had this kind of industry. Rather than kill your baby, why not sell your baby to a baby smuggler? I suppose you could consider it a better alternative than infanticide. I do think, however, that this is more of a problem among […]

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DJ, thanks for the link.

I asked my girlfriend, who took the gao kao (college entrance exams), about the results and how they determine your future. She did fairly well on the exam and received the results in the following format. It’s a number, like the SAT, but on a different point scale of […]

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America has been overvalued for quite some time. While America lives such a high-standard life, others are in abject poverty. What we are seeing here in a rebalancing of the world’s wealth. Like the economist said, the jobs are merely shifting, not being decreased. Unfortunately for the uneducated, they are shifting into jobs that […]

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Education is the key. Many of the educated people I meet have the manners and the sense of respect for others that we would expect from Americans. However, it is the uneducated that typically don’t find many issues with throwing that fang bian mian (instant noodles) into the yangzi river. (I’m not bitter.) If […]

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Whoa whoa, while I agree that China is up and coming, let’s not call it doomsday for American MBAs yet. It is true that learning Mandarin and Chinese business will be a new skill to acquire, but is it really that much of a difference from what businesspeople are used to? It is not […]

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The international business study tour is one of the major reasons I applied to the program here at Cal Poly. I didn’t expect it to be cheap (actually, quite the opposite), and I am relieved at the cost savings of the Chindia trip. I believe Prof. Carr says that every year, this program operates […]

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China has their own share of problems in education, just like the US. I wouldn’t generalize any particular country on the quality of the students. I know many students in the US who work hard (if not harder) than Chinese students (or Japanese students, German students, etc.). We just have to measure an individual’s […]

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What an interesting discussion. I was reading Prof. Carr’s comment, particularly about the article "Are We Innovative Yet? The China Challenge". I found the comments from the author of the article to be somewhat true and somewhat not. First, a comment about Chinese education. It’s true that Chinese are forced to study… and study […]

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Production processes that are complex aren’t just for the US. Chinese have education systems, too. Just because they aren’t as prestigious as other universities, doesn’t mean that they’re deplorable. Let’s not get taken by surprise here. Business plans are changing, and the inevitable fact is that manufacturing is shifting to Asia, even Mexico admits […]

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