Comments on: Top-of-the-Week Links: 9-year-old Lin Dan’s letter to his mother, profile on Old China Hand Bill Bishop, and how to fix Chinese basketball http://beijingcream.com/2012/08/top-of-the-week-links-lin-dan-letter-bill-bishop-chinese-basketball/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jo http://beijingcream.com/2012/08/top-of-the-week-links-lin-dan-letter-bill-bishop-chinese-basketball/#comment-29353 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:33:07 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=4443#comment-29353 They are NOT toilet trained. They are taught that they can squat where ever and whenever they want because of split pants, hence the overwhelming amount of public urination you see among the adult community here. Chinese people are never toilet trained.

]]> By: Jess http://beijingcream.com/2012/08/top-of-the-week-links-lin-dan-letter-bill-bishop-chinese-basketball/#comment-29196 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:36:28 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=4443#comment-29196 Oh, don’t let the self-deprecating humour fool you. In a nation where literally every Australian child learns how to swim in primary school, winning only one medal in swimming, and being behind New Zealand, of all countries, on the medal tally is regarded as nothing short of a national humiliation. But at least we got a second gold medal…yaaay~!

As strange as this is to say, it’s nice to see Chinese mothers breastfeeding. Chinese child-rearing seems to go from cesarean section to infant formula. So sticking to something natural seems nice. Chinese children are toilet trained at a really young age, seemingly, sometimes at around eight or ten months. I wonder if there’s a World Toilet-training Week…

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