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[quote=GRIZ326,243575]True Katrina, I only comment on the bright side of China. You are correct Katrina that China has problems and the nature of them has changed considerably since my first visit in 1978.

China's history is filled with the terrible suffering of her people. Some how the Chinese people endured all of these difficulties and emerged generally healthy, happy, of sound mind and strong spirit. Now some statistician wants to take that away?

Please - life in China today is much easier than in say...1926, 1936, 1946 or 1956 just pick the year.  It is my opinion that China has real issues to wrestle with in the years ahead. There is no need to manufacture excuses for 13% of the nation's young people who can now claim that "they have mental disorders" - therefore they cannot do this, cannot be blamed for that and must get special treatment.

The number of mental disorders in a country is directly related to the number of psychiatrists. In American everyone has an excuse. The one I love best is that "alcoholism is a disease." HA!  ...and then it follows that, "I was raised by an alcoholic" that's why I am this way so you must excuse me. As an American of full-blooded Irish descent I can testify to the power and desire for alcohol that is built into my genes; it would be easy to allow myself to become an alcoholic; but self-control is a good thing. I don't like to make excuses; I prefer taking responsibility.

So China has 40 million young people who have some sort of cognitive disorder. How many of them have a crippling cognitive disorder? Those are the young people who need to have the special care and justifiably consume the resources of China; the rest must pony up and do the best they can.

Within this story there is a subscript and a hidden interest. I was a journalist for almost 20 years and saw these sorts of stories over and over again...all of them had a grain of truth and a ton of someone's special interest.  I surely hope that foreign and domestic intellectuals do not succeed in burying China in happy horse manure. China's come to far to end up covered in it.[/quote]

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