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Kids and Teens in China Banned From Playing Online Video Games for More Than 3 Hours Per Week
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Kids should have the ability to play as long as they like. But it's also their responsibility to go to school and get good grades. 3 hours seems to be short to me but it's whatever the rules are.
I agree with China. Even adults are addicted and put their iPads in auto-raise mode during dinner.
I use to play video games as a kid but also going out.
I use to play video games as a kid but also going out.
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Most of us live in the U.S., which has been a “country like China” for quite a while now. 60% of Americans believe unvaccinated people (for Covid) shouldn’t be allowed to buy groceries.
Better than the radical left the west has got, at least there people are in check and dont go every day protesting nonsense
Talk about a lot of breaks. Thank you for the schedule.
GOOD. Those games were designed to be addictive. Good riddance.
School day in most US states is 8:15-2:15ish for elementary and 8-3ish for higher grades with 30-40 min for lunch. Mid-August to early June or first week September to late June. 12 years required.
So… it’s about the same taken in total. Except the outside tutoring and summer camps to pre-learn your subjects to get good grades because then it’s all review. That does happen in the USA too, but almost entirely among first generation Asian-American students.
Yeah kids now days live on there phone and computer with a headset playing games 24:7 it’s not healthy and they have zero social skills
Are you kidding? You’re okay with letting the government mold your kids for 13 years, but restricting video games is where you draw the line?
Good Lord.
As a Preteen, I honestly don't care for video games that much. They seem like a waste of time to me. You could be doing productive things or exploring the real world around you.
In China everyone loves and respects the government and they keep their culture alive, I’m sure they are more skilled than most people in the west that spend all day protesting
Hah, China has a field day cracking down on everything right now, just like in the old days…
But in contrast to the reckless political campaigns from before, this has some merit to it. If China's young generation becomes too sedentary, too effeminate, too obese, too dumb, too dependent on sugar water, they will just turn into fat brats doing what they want without respect for others and of no use for society.
This is why China will have the edge over an America in free fall, this is why China will prevail.
Is it the role of the government to foster and educate the citizens? Not in America, but it has been done in China for thousands of years. It is confucianism in practice.
But in contrast to the reckless political campaigns from before, this has some merit to it. If China's young generation becomes too sedentary, too effeminate, too obese, too dumb, too dependent on sugar water, they will just turn into fat brats doing what they want without respect for others and of no use for society.
This is why China will have the edge over an America in free fall, this is why China will prevail.
Is it the role of the government to foster and educate the citizens? Not in America, but it has been done in China for thousands of years. It is confucianism in practice.
For sure, one day radical lefts will destroy Western civilization if radical rights don't do it before them but dictatorship like China will eventually end up being self-destruct. All the West needs is to have balance (which currently they didn't have admittedly).
Sure sure sure. Much like some other things, instead of teaching kids to deal with them responsibly, they just ban them. Then, as soon as they enter university, nothing horrible would happen for sure.
You could label games as harmful products. The government controls that sort of thing.
Imagine in the future science deduces that this is in fact true, then who is the bad guy? We all are in agreement that there's some truth here, even to the extent of mass shootings. Are we going to be in denial about this, like global warming?
It's all pretty scary.
Imagine in the future science deduces that this is in fact true, then who is the bad guy? We all are in agreement that there's some truth here, even to the extent of mass shootings. Are we going to be in denial about this, like global warming?
It's all pretty scary.
Again, nothing was banned. Words have meanings. We should use them.
Yeah of course they don’t say “ban”, but words can carry multiple meanings as well, and they won’t survive outside of context.
Anyway, off topic.
They didn’t say ”banned” because they weren’t banned.
I don’t mean this in anyway hateful but this is the truth in the west kids now don’t know if they are a boy or a girl or both, and kids are feeling guilty of being a certain skin colour and in China kids are very smart and skilled, the system in the west isn’t working the woke pc culture is damaging kids, there has to be a line with the people in power to look after it’s people and as much as I love freedom I think sometimes things should change.
Interesting. You know, those Xinjiang internment camps are pretty bad for people's health too.