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Are American Economically Family-Independent What *is* true and more to the point is that with more opportunities everyone is indeed more financially independent -- e.g. a girl is also expected to work, so she isn't economically bound to her boyfriend, a young person out of college can typically get job that will pay enough for him to live; a salary of working couple is enough to rent/buy a house, thus they will not live with parents; parents have enough money for retirement, so they are not an economic burden for children, etc. In a similar way, people are more independent from their bosses in America when they can easily find a new job if they are fired. |
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Are American Economically Family-Independent Eh, that's quite an overestimation. There's no support in the form of food and housing I know of in public high school system, and to go to college you need money that are beyond average young person's summer or part-time salary. The state health insurance program exists but with varying political support and funding levels (more with Democrats). What is true, is that college is at least partly subsidized by society, and typically involves leaving family to live in a dorm; and that culturally people are expected to make their own life choices at this point and later. I'd say people are indeed expected to be able to care about themselves after they start college until very old age. Note that the amount of money necessary to go to "elite" isn't necessary more than the amount of money to go to average state college -- Harvard, Princeton and other schools have financial aid, which, I believe, pays all tuition and an additonal stipend for people who don't have money at all. Google for it; it's quite a hot topic right now. |
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Is RMB and Yuan the Same? Yes Eh? So far I thought yuan (元, 圆））would be a base currency unit and would also refer to HKD in Hong Kong, NTD in Taiwan and to USD in informal speech if people know they talk about dollars. |
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D Train in China I've taken it as second part of 北京 -> 南京 -> 上海 trip, which is a reasonable way to go to Shanghai when there are no direct tickets. I was even able to sleep, like on the plane. Really nice. |