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Comment on The elite college students who can’t read books in ~humanities
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Comment on Cost of internet connection (monthly average) in various countries in ~tech
Aristetul LinkIn Bangladesh, the vast majority of people pay around BDT 500 so around USD $5. The graph shows $18. That's not to say the service is stellar, but definitely acceptable given the state of things....In Bangladesh, the vast majority of people pay around BDT 500 so around USD $5. The graph shows $18. That's not to say the service is stellar, but definitely acceptable given the state of things. Living in the capital, I pay around $14/month. Most ISPs around the country are splintered off of other larger ISPs, and these ISPs essentially act as landlords renting out bandwidth. The poorer people in the capital pay around $2/month and that gets them by. But Mobile Data is a different beast. Data is sold as marked-up packages with expiration dates. This might factor into the $18/month on the site.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~creative
Aristetul LinkYou have to show up. Everyday. Some days will be brutal, some will have you deluded into thinking you're a master genius. It doesn't matter. Just show up. 1 page everyday adds up faster than you'd...You have to show up. Everyday. Some days will be brutal, some will have you deluded into thinking you're a master genius. It doesn't matter. Just show up. 1 page everyday adds up faster than you'd expect.
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Comment on US movie-theater behavior has gone off the reels in ~movies
Aristetul Link ParentShaming people in movie theaters for being disruptive is legit cinema history. It's how the first theaters in the US taught the movie-going public movie-going manners. And if you were found to be...Shaming people in movie theaters for being disruptive is legit cinema history. It's how the first theaters in the US taught the movie-going public movie-going manners. And if you were found to be the annoying, the house spotlight would be on you in the dark theater and everyone had a free go at roasting you. So glad to hear it still exists in Alamo Drafthouse.
Another reason why Cambridge/GCSE's are so broad and just generally more "profit-motivated" is that the curriculum is also used by previous British colonies/Commonwealth countries for education on English. Where I'm from, increasingly families of a middle class-upper class income will opt for Cambridge over the national curriculum in the local language because ultimately they want to send their kids to the West for higher education at least, if not long term immigration and white collar jobs. Even though kids from the national curriculum are consistently the ones who end up getting full rides at Ivy League schools and similar around the world, society at large is more interested in GTFO out of here and go somewhere in the West, so they believe this gives them the best chance at doing that. At least in my corner of South Asia, Cambridge doesn't seem too bothered with the quality of education and the international curriculum of Cambridge is the same everywhere except in the UK. But I'd be surprised if this also doesn't have an effect on British education somewhere down the line.
I did my undergrad in a liberal arts college in the US and I fully agree that the American kids seemed way more well-rounded in their education compared to the rest of us internationals who largely came from a Cambridge background. Where at freshman year I already had junior year level knowledge of Economics, I knew very little about Physics and Chemistry outside of a 6th grade level. Whereas Americans knew much more about a wide range of topics they didn't possess "advanced" knowledge. It seems to me that the US curriculum promotes a far more holistic approach than Cambridge which has you start specialising from much younger. That being said, for us internationals across American universities, unanimously, the first year of US college seemed entirely redundant and we had gone over all those things since 7th grade. Because of this early committment to specialization, very few, if any, internationals come to university with an "undecided" major. Which is nearly never the case for those outside of the Western world. Asian attitudes to education are very different from the West, so it's almost as if this specialization is doubled down on from a young age. It almost seems insidious the way Cambridge doubles down and exploits these sentiments for profit.