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Re: Cheap American shot (Was: NEW Mindstorms set shown (with picture!))
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:19:41 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Clint Rutkas writes:
> <snip>That's because in Europe (Eastern Europe at least) kids mature
> earlier. At
> age 14 or 15 they already have to pick what they want to do with their life,
> whether to go to middle school or job training. By the time they're 18,
> they
> can speak at least 2 if not 3 languages while some 18yr olds in the US can't
> even locate the US on the world map.</snip>
> <rant>
>
> Easy there Jezek, I'm 18 right now and can speak Russian, German, and
> English. I can do 7 different programming languages, have a 3.9 out of 4.0
> GPA, and taking college classes to supplement what my current High school
> can't handle due to costs of the equipment.
>
> And at age 14 to 15, if you have decided what you want to do, you have been
> brainwashed into believing it, only at 17 did I decide I wanted to peruse CS
> as a job, even now I'm tossing up between programming and networking.
>
> And yes, there are the few Americans that can't locate possible certain
> states, but if you lived where a single state is the size of YOUR entire
> country, my response would be to shut up and get a wee bit more informed.
What I wrote are facts and not my own imagination so don't tell me to shut
up. You may be an exception but in general, there is less expected out of
kids that live in the US than out of kids that live in Europe. What you wrote
in your last paragraph is typical ignorance and exactly my point. If you live
in the US which is the world superpower then you don't need to know another
language to get by and can afford to be more of a hillbilly. If you lived in
a small country then you would have to know at least 2 or 3 lanugages by the
time you went to college just to get by in today's business. For example as
kids, we were drilled Russian from the 5th grade and English from the 7th
grade.
Since in Europe at 14 or 15 you already have to decide what to do, while in
the US you do it at 17 or 18, it is more appropriate to put the final age
range as 14 in Europe and 16 in the US which I think is the whole point of
this debate.
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