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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