 Chinese colleges are giving students a week off in order for them to fall in love now Could this possibly be a solution that could offset China's declining birth rate? I don't know but let's talk about it Yeah, this is going viral in a couple circles on the internet right now long story short nine vocational colleges in China are Giving students off from April 1st to 7th Andrew because they feel like the rigorous academic schedule might put too much pressure on their lives So they don't have time to develop their social and romantic lives That could also be leading to the declining birth rates obviously that's a trending topic around the world right now But particularly for China and I think that's why this topic is trending so hard right now Yeah, tons of comments some very interesting ones some possibly insightful ones some just straight up offensive ones But yeah, we're gonna go analyze them all we'll give our personal takeaways guys You know what it is. We are intellectually honest We'll try to have you have a productive and positive conversation and from silly to serious first comment Oh man, look at you now China you guys have the one child policy try to control poverty Looks like you shot yourself in the foot. You controlled it too much now. You don't have any young people It's all old people who's gonna work in the factory everybody knows your economies very dependent on factories Well Billy Bob as you know China we find very drastic solutions now Maybe the one child policy was quite extreme But if we need a solution that goes the other way we will force everybody to have three children Somebody said you know every like a lot of economies are going through this issue right now Japan Korea Singapore but I think in China it's viewed through a particularly industrial lens because China makes what 60 70% of the world stuff So I would case say kind of like Japan has kind of viewed as this anime dreamland with a declining population South Korea is viewed as this like cultural factory that has a declining population, but China's like a factory factory So I guess it's more like physical-minded, right? Like no people are like yeah if China's Birthrate goes down. They just won't have any workers that just crank the machine I'm gonna make my stuff as my stuff the price is gonna go way up But then I guess there'll be less of a rival too so I'm balancing Needs less stuff. I don't know somebody said this is a more offensive comment Somebody said yep, it's clear to me that even Chinese do not like being Chinese In fact, they're just like to end the bloodline right there and then and especially Chinese women They do not like Chinese men because Chinese women on a global scale rank much higher than their male counterparts hold up I need to see What the person looks like who wrote this comment? I can imagine what they look like but anyways guys. Um, yeah I mean, I think that When it comes to criticizing a male group of any country, I actually think it's very common right now because there's this whole like Boys to men or sorry. What is it like the boy pandemic that's going on right now even in the Western world? So listen Western young men are getting criticized for not being strong enough or not being able to be strong enough or you know Not being motivated and I do think there's some version of that happening in China But it's a compounded with the bad global image or soft power For example, obviously like you would say Japan and Korea have better images than China And then their men would also be more valued by their own women or by other yeah You're saying that like as far as like how cool of an export the Chinese women are compared to the Chinese men The Chinese women are I probably have more options. Yeah, that is like just I don't know it sounds true, right? But what I'm saying is that Men in a lot of countries including the West and surprisingly the West like America even and China have Similar problems they look different, but they're similar dynamics Yeah, and I think a lot of people would give you pushback on that because they just can't imagine how it would be Yeah, there's this whole just like in America. We have this whole Gen Z. Oh men don't want to do this or these kids are lazy They actually have that in China, too Somebody said how can they fall in love in one week? How silly is that man? That doesn't even make any sense like what are the kids gonna do for a week like play video games? Beyond League of Legends, how's that gonna make no what would it needed to happen was that got to be some matchmaking activities or like a whole? School sponsored or state sponsored like beach day for students like you got to have more like student Discounted things for students to meet each other. You're saying things that America apparently from videos I've seen had in like 1935 Even things that we had growing up Before social media and computers really like took over people's lives, you know Like you had it like just hang out with each other So you kind of have to force that now or else if you leave people to their own device They will just stay on their own device. Yeah, maybe some matchmaking pickleball. Whatever. I don't know some sort of productive collaborative activity Why would you say pickleball somebody said man? This is so unfortunate from one extreme to another the Chinese are always just being yanked You can only have one kid now. They want you to have four kids You know, I just hope that they just make living in the city easier for families and I think that goes for all big cities, man Whether it's LA, New York SF man, they got to like make it more family-friendly day Yeah, I will say that in general compared to Western culture like specifically like Scandinavia or like Netherlands or something like that Asian culture East Asian culture in general seems extreme, right? Like how hard you push the kids to study and get a good job and get accomplishments It seems super extreme, but then they have the GDP numbers to back it up, too I think there's just so many pros and cons somebody said we already do this in America. It's called spring break You just go to Florida. You go to Cancun. You just party and then you just You know do the thing No, I don't know if that's necessarily like the place to only find love too I didn't I didn't know if spring break was like that But basically you need more organizations and you need to push people you need social structures Not just academic or industrial or corporate structures You need social structures obviously to be honest somebody who's has spent some time in China The social structures there are completely different than America and good and bad ways, but this is one of the bad ways somebody said You know Everybody in China so nerdy and you know falling in love with waifu pillows playing Dota spent in the whole wheat gaming No wonder why these guys that just can't get laid Can't get married. Oh man, you know, it's really funny. There was also this other comment that was like Yeah, Chinese people they just want to be Korean anyways They don't even like being Chinese and I was thinking I was like, you know, what's funny is that yes? Koreans definitely I think one thing that a lot of Chinese people can learn from the Korean pop culture It's kind of how to dress and how to upkeep and kind of like Oh, Korean way more looks centric and to be honest in that look centric in this they take care of their looks Yeah, but whether that's like I guess like body frame or skin or whatever What's interesting is that you could almost argue that this declining birth rate in this People not marrying is even a bigger deal in Korea right now in South Korea. They're having this huge problem What's zero dot eight right? It's way below two dot. Oh, but the difference is South Korea is not on the size of China So any problem that happens in China is extremely huge because the country is huge It seems more exacerbated or more extreme obviously and it's more you know Yeah, it's just very global and impacts a lot of things someone said, you know It's interesting because late-stage capitalistic societies have an organic one-child policy Just because you can't afford to have more than one kid. It's really interesting man It definitely seems like New York has a one-child policy Yeah, do you think it is because of the work culture in big urban cities? But particularly in East Asia your kids got to be so competitive even for elementary school spots Middle school spots high school spots Everything is ranked everybody is tracked on so many metrics and everybody's trying to boost their numbers all the time I mean, I think having kids used to be seen more as a duty It used to be seen as something that you always wanted to do but now I think that a lot of people's individuals lives can just be so good if they make a good amount of money that they don't They don't feel like they want to be burdened by also East Asia in particular Andrew very non-religious too So there's never gonna be no religious motivation to propagate the world or whatever somebody said You know people always fall for bad China news on the internet man every single time it just goes viral This is non-news man. It's not in schools. It's not a big deal. It's just everything's gotta go viral every day I guess that's just the way media works Hey, I'll say this as weird as this idea is like oh, we you know We get we gave the kids off one week so that they could find love Even though we had no plan for them to find love, but that was our intention here So I think like it sounds like a goofy idea, but I guess at least some schools in China are trying to do something Yeah, do you think it's also back to the virality issue of this piece of news because it sort of fits with this trend of like Hey, man, everybody's talking about their mass scores and if Tiktok stealing the information It's all good cuz China's just gonna vanish in a way once they vanish you it won't be too big of a thing Is it kind of like a yeah, don't worry about it. We won they vanished themselves David overall, what are your takeaways, man? I would say that you know one thing I learned from reading about this article and doing some research is there's a lot of Parallels and it sounds kind of crazy between the way they run things over there and like just having Chinese parents in America Like literally like they mean well they want you to work hard study hard, you know Be academic achieve on these like hard human development indicator index, you know metrics But the other aspects social life romantic life quote-unquote happiness They sort of are not emphasized or prioritized and you can see that on a macro level and we're all the way down to a micro level Yeah, it's almost like they're running their system like a Non-intentionally somewhat toxic Asian parent right cuz you know like the toxic Asian parents like shelters you keeps you in doesn't you expose You to things you're not allowed to play in the neighborhood And then all of a sudden you're just like yeah, where's your family now give us a great family now You have a great career you have great grace give it to us and you're just like I just don't even feel like I'm fully developed yet Well, you're saying that growing up with Chinese parents is a little bit like growing up with the Chinese government Possibly possibly man. Um, do you think that the government's gonna have to step in and this goes for any government? But I guess some governments have more I guess total control than other ones How are they gonna address this man? Is it? Ubi for people who want to have family so they get more things subsidized whether that's private schools or nursery schools or Diapers even or what do they got to do? Yeah, I think it's cost of living and I think it's setting up More established like organizations that can help parents to because both parents are gonna want to work or at least you got to cut down Cost of living somehow. What do you think about Japan paying people to move to the deep burbs? I mean if they pay them enough. Yeah Because then I guess those parents they can all live together like you know what it is like a lot of a group if enough if a hundred Parents move their kids to a certain place then they kind of have a community and they can build from that or something like that Like I don't know. I'm just saying man. I think I'm really looking in a modular housing I think modular housing is gonna be a big thing. It's almost like fancy buildings. They look that are built like Legos Um, I guess do you think gaming is gonna be an issue? Should they tell people to focus less on gaming because obviously and we know globally, but particularly in Asia, they're digital Yeah, I would like to see the stat, but I'm pretty sure The more you game the less babies you have there's definitely a negative correlation like I'm just guessing I don't know the stats, but somebody proved me wrong. Okay. I just feels like it's true. So I Don't know guys. I'm not gonna tell you what to do. I'm just saying Anyways guys me people in person or at least on the apps through some type of like, you know app or people are trying to meet each other Yeah, it's very difficult to go back and like change Chinese society fundamentally from the time you're like one years old, you know I always tell people this man life is kind of like, you know those attribute bars when you're building your player in 2k or any sort of game, you know when you're like This one or this one you can't put all the focus on like career Academics in economy and corporate structures and go this and then completely ignore the social romantic Whatever, you know more like soft sciences one and expect those metrics to be sky-high 10 out of 10 Socialization starts at a young age and you got to talk about even dating even Introduce that at a young age and introduce the idea of starting a family and carrying on legacy at a young age Anyways guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think about this What are some also solutions that anybody any country or or or? City could use that could help. I guess birth rates man because I guess declining birth rates It's definitely something that's happening across the world right now So anyway, keep it civil in the comment section until next time we the hop-up boys be out peace