Sunday, July 19, 2009

Vancouver & Wen Zhou

Wen Zhou and Vancouver



(compare two cities)



the picture of Wen Zhou are from here.
the last picture of Vancouver is from here.


My hometown which is called Wen Zhou is situated in the south of China. And, Vancouver is very farmilar to us which is beautiful city. Those two cities are quite differece. First, Wen Zhou dislikes Vancouver has skytrain, but it has general transportation. Moreover, WZ population is quadruple of Vancouver, such as WZ has 800 million, and Vancouver has 210 million. Also, WZ is smaller than Vancouver. In additon, WZ people don't drink directly water from the top even other cities in China, but Vancouver people drink water directly from the top, it means Vancouver environment has no more polution. Second, they are different relationship between children and adults. WZ people separate different ages, such as children have to obey their parents requirement. For example, if a child doesn't like to learn a piano, but their parents want to it, he or she have to learn a piano. Moreover, parents have to respect to grandparents, same as children do. In contrast, Vancouver people are so equal between children and parents and grandparents. Also, WZ people treat their after 18 years old children like kids, it likes no freedom for their children. Because they think their children never can grew up, they always worried everything of their children until they get married. On the contrary, Vancouver people give their children a lot of freedom. Third, the education is much different between two cities. WZ people give children lots of pressure, such as "you have to get A from the fianl exam, you have to entre the famous university......" those conversition that i believe all of chinese have heared from their parents, but children can get benefit from their parents' pressure. They feel so much pressure, so they will work hard. When they graduate from scholl, and they will get good job and they become smart. Unlike Vancouver, they don't give children much pressure, so their children become lazy. They are so sluggish, can't put themself together during their studying. When they graduate that they will feel more tired in their life. Finally, Wen Zhou and Vancouver are dissimilar cities.

2 comments:

  1. What an interesting and detailed post! Parent-child relationships seem quite different in Canada; I think they used to be more like parent-child relationships in China, but they have changed. Do you think that parent-child relationships will change in China as well? Also, Chinese parents seem to motivate their children in their studies. What do you think motivates Canadian students (if anything)?

    For other students in the class, what are parent-child relationships like in your country? What motivates you to succeed in school?

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  2. I think, right now people are going to change a little, but we don't change a lot 5 years from now. because people are treating their children like kids, they don't think their children can independent. for other cities people, they also do the same thing. in school we study hard because we don't want to our parents disopponit. they are proud because of our.

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