[lbo-talk] Cheating in China...

[Michael Perelman]

A bright young Taiwanese teaches in our department.  Last semester, he 
had about 10 students from China in one of his classes.  They all 
cheated.  He asked me another teacher to form a panel to interview the 
students, which was a very interesting experience.  After our 
interviews, he mentioned that cheating is an integral part of Chinese 
culture and that the students expected him to be sympathetic of their 
behavior.
Blanche is reading Factory Girls, a book about young Chinese women 
working in sweatshops.  The author, a former Wall Street Journal 
reporter, at one point she was interviewing some Chinese author, who 
asked why she was bothering to write her book when she could more 
easily just lift material from other sources.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:09:27AM +0000, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm confused. If they want to learn English, what's the point of cheating? 
> 
> Joanna 
> 
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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