Decades ago, when I lived in Hong Kong, Harvard sweatshirts were a thing-pirated versions anyhow.
It is a nice little essay about the differences. Hey, of the zillions of Chinese universities, how many do any of us know? I know of Bei Da-Beijing University, and Xin Hua, and that is about it, mostly from visiting ages ago.
I don’t get the idea that the author was trying to say something earth-shaking. Take what you want and leave the rest.
Also, the Chinese typically did not travel the country as children like we do here in the U.S., so certainly they experience more cultural uniformity than the typical Harvard (or ‘college’ is probably more appropriate) student.
I don’t observe that about Harvard, I used to work at a small nonprofit with lots of top school grads, where the head was a Harvard grad and greatly disliked by staff, was pretty ineffectual and odd person, didn’t last long.
Are you sure? It sounds like you describe China in the 1980s.
How often American children travel overseas?
http://www.attractchina.com/blog/chinese-tourists-travel-america/
Also summer schools for middle and HS students are full of Chinese students.
True. I’m speaking of China in the 80s and beyond. I don’t think there was a sea change by the early 2000s when I was there, but admittedly I wasn’t looking for it. That was around the time of the author’s formative years, as well, I believe.
100 million Chinese tourists is a very small proportion of the population of 1.4 billion.
100 million in one year sounds like a lot. But I think it is total foreign visits, not number of people. There are a few people traveling a lot, so the number of individuals who travel may be a lot less.