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9/22/2016

Topic Reading-Vol.1625-9/22/2016

Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why 'tents of love' are popping up in Chinese colleges
Commencement is a big deal for American parents to celebrate their child’s academic achievement and completion of their college life. Those parents make every effort to attend the ceremony to honor their child’s accomplishment and wish them the best for their upcoming career.
In China, it is quite common for parents to accompany their child when they start college. Those parents come almost at the same time and many of them come from distant places, hotels around colleges are fully booked when schools start new academic year. Some universities set mats and tents in the gym in order to provide accommodation to such parents who can’t find a place to stay.
Some say those children under one-child policy are spoiled having been over-cared by their parents, and their parents. Parent’s accompanying a freshman to college whose average age is around 18 too coddling compared to parents’ attending a commencement of a graduating student aged over 22?
Enjoy reading and thinking if those Chinese parents enjoy staying overnight in a mat in the gym.

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