June 8, 2008 at 6:05 am (Asia, Social)
Tags: Education, South Korea
Probably not a big deal, but it is kinda surprise to note this very obvious error in New York Times article For studies in English, Koreans learn to say goodbye to dad like…
The mothers say they are the modern-day successors to one of the most famous mothers in East Asia: the mother of Mencius, the fourth-century Chinese Confucian philosopher. In a story known in South Korea, as well as China and Japan, Mencius’s mother moved to three neighborhoods before finding the environment most favorable to her son’s education.
Well, Mencius is not exactly a fourth-century philosopher but lived around 372 - 289 BCE.
On another note, the critics on wild geese mother:
South Korean women’s rising social status and growing economic power have fueled the wild geese migration, according to education experts like Oh Ook-whan, a professor at Ehwa Womans University who has studied the separated families. Conservatives have criticized the wild geese mothers for being obsessed about their children’s education at the risk of destroying their marriages. The women’s real intention, they say, is to get as far away as possible from their mothers-in-law. …
“I don’t know why Mencius’s mother is so revered and why we wild geese mothers are so criticized,” said Chang Soo-jin, 37, who moved here with her two children nearly two years ago. “Our coming out here is exactly the same as what she did.”
Well, Mencius’s mother did moved around 3 neighbourhoods but this was not exactly what her scenario: Mencius father passed away when Mencius was three and Mrs Chang still has her husband though…
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April 19, 2008 at 5:01 am (Asia, Food/Agriculture, Social)
Tags: MeThink, rice
According to this article, yes.
Waiting in line outside a warehouse last weekend to buy government-supplied rice was Julieta Casanova, 60, who lives with her two children and eight grandchildren in Tandang Sora, a slum outside of Manila.
“We can’t survive without rice,” Casanova said. The government rations the rice to five kilograms per person, which Casanova said would last two days.
So if the author of the article is not mistaking about 5kg rice per household or per person, I wonder how someone can eat 1.25kg rice per meal in 2 days? (Assuming 4 meals in 2 days).
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March 14, 2008 at 8:38 am (Asia, Education, OECD, Statistic)
Tags: degrees, Education, engineering, OECD, Science
Let’s look at the percentage of female graduates (first degrees) in all science and engineering field in OECD countries for year 2004:
% of female in first degree of all science and engineering field:
Country / All S&E fields
Portugal — 52.4
Greece — 51.2
Canada — 50.6
United States — 50.4
Iceland — 46.3
New Zealand — 46.1
Italy — 44.5
France — 43.4
United Kingdom — 43.1
Australia — 42.5
Spain — 42.4
Sweden — 42.1
Hungary — 41.6
Belgium — 40.6
Ireland — 40.4
Germany — 37.4
Austria — 36.9
Denmark — 35.9
Finland — 35.5
Norway — 35.2
South Korea — 34.0
Netherlands — 33.3
Switzerland — 30.6
Taiwan (2005) — 27.2
Japan — 20.9
Source: National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2008
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March 3, 2008 at 8:19 am (Asia, Malaysia, Poll, Statistic)
Tags: Asia, Malaysia, Religiousity, Statistic, survey
Via Asian Barometer, I found the interesting survey which is similar to the series of European Social Survey I have published in this blog previously. First before looking into the religious profile of 1200 Malaysians interviewed in this survey, let’s look at the ethnic and gender profile of respondents :
Female: 49.5%
Male: 50.5%
Indian/Other, Female: 4.3%
Indian/Other, Male: 4.1%
Non-Malay Bumi, Female: 6.5%
Non-Malay Bumi, Male: 6.3%
Chinese, Female: 13.4%
Chinese, Male: 14.2%
Malay, Female: 25.3%
Malay, Male: 25.9%
Total - 100%
So, the religiosity of Malaysians:
a. Religious profile:
1. Islam - 59.0%
2. Buddhism - 16.1%
3. Christianity - 11.0%
4. Hinduism - 6.7%
5. Taoism - 3.9%
6. Sikhism - 0.2%
7. Confucianism - 0.2%
8. Bahai - 0.2%
9. Animism - 0.3%
10. None/Other - 2.5%
b. Religious practise:
1. Several times a day - 60.9%
2. Daily - 6.6%
3. Several times a week - 6.5%
4. Once a month - 7.8%
5. Only during festivals - 2.1%
6. Once a year - 7.6%
7. Less often - 4.8%
8. Practically never - 3.4%
9. Decline to answer - 0.9%
Source: Asian Barometer - Bridget Welsh, Ibrahim Suffian, and Andrew Aeria. 2007. Malaysia Country Report. Second Wave of Asian Barometer Survey
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January 10, 2008 at 8:16 am (Asia, Picture, Travel)
Tags: Travel, Picture, Cambodia, World Heritage Sites, Ta Prohm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_Prohm
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