https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj Erin en-us 2021-11-02 17:16:38 UTC 2021-11-06 11:25:59 UTC hello@padlet.com wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862345891 2021-11-02 17:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862345891 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862363083 By China's definition, poverty is as anyone in rural areas earning less than about $2.30 a day. ]]> 2021-11-02 17:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862363083 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862366657 - Starting from 2013, China has been sending resident working teams to poor villages, and every household has a contact official in charge of poverty alleviation

-By 2020, there are 255,000 resident teams and more than 3 million officials dispatched to poor villages and towns

-Different strategies are applied based on people's location, and causes and levels of poverty. Examples of strategies: 1) Finding employment 2) Relocating 3) Providing education for school-age children ]]> 2021-11-02 17:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862366657 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862369406 2021-11-02 17:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862369406 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862409872 https://www.bbc.com/news/56213271]]> 2021-11-02 17:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862409872 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862417188 - “More than 8 million middle and high school graduates from poor families have received vocational training, 5.14 million poor students have received higher education, and key institutions of higher learning have admitted some 700,000 students from designated rural and poor areas.”

- The government also offered training on standard spoken and written Chinese language (mandarin) to 3.5 million rural teachers, young farmers and herdsmen in ethnic minority areas. ]]> 2021-11-02 17:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862417188 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862471513 Government-Funded Education and Its Impact on The Identity & Culture of Yi Ethnic Group in Liangshan

-To the minority, being assimilated very likely leads to more access to wealth, power and/or higher social status. It also offers a sense of pride for being associated with the dominant segment of the society.

-"Gradual loss of cultural heritage by the minority group because of those who leave it, and loss of those who reject its cultural ways, can give rise to increased feelings of alienation and inadequacy among minority group members."

-Many Yi students are feeling cultural and individual tension in school, as receiving education could be a form of assimilation. They also feel

-However, due to how the traditional Chinese education is conducted, questions such as "Who am I?" or "Am I, and is my culture, worthy?" are seldom being asked in school. Ethnic identities are therefore not politicized even in multiethnic school environment.

]]> 2021-11-02 18:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862471513 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862482556 https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt896nd0h7&chunk.id=ch14&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch14&brand=ucpress]]> 2021-11-02 18:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1862482556 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870450307 An example of of how natural disaster worsens life of people in impoverished area]]> 2021-11-05 16:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870450307 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870464219 -In impoverished and thus less developed areas, fixed and stereotypical gender roles can be a lot more commonly seen than in more urbanized areas. 

-Married women who later become widows cannot bring their children with them when they marry again. However, women have to marry because they are not educated and cannot afford livings on their own in most cases. ]]> 2021-11-05 17:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870464219 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870476295 China eliminated extreme poverty, a monumental achievement. But the root causes of poverty persist.

]]> 2021-11-05 17:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870476295 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870481264 -Poverty cannot be eliminated if the roots are not seen and changed accordingly.

-“Over half of rural babies in China face malnutrition and over half of rural children are developmentally stunted, with an IQ lower than 90, because of a lack of early childhood education. Forty percent of schoolchildren in rural China have intestinal worms, and over 30 percent of rural students have vision problems but do not have glasses.“

-Over 63 percent of people in poverty in China quit high school. Meaning that those people are only suitable for labor-intensive jobs, such as assembly line workers, and cannot be retrained for higher value-add jobs because of their lack of learning ability.]]> 2021-11-05 17:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870481264 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870505827 2021-11-05 17:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870505827 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870534133 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo61544815.html]]> 2021-11-05 17:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870534133 wxue20221_1 https://padlet.com/wxue20221_1/o9d8opziwtell2nj/wish/1870608265 Challenge: The biggest problem we identified in regards to China is how the government is handling pollution and climate change.

Solution: To lower the carbon emission, China needs to first recognize climate change, then work towards using more renewable energy as well as encouraging individual actions to get to achieving carbon neutrality.

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