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Sunday, October 16, 2011
An Unfair World
Watching Two Million Minutes really opened my eyes to how the world works. It is a lot more difficult to achieve excellence in foreign countries than it is here in the United States. Throughout the film they show the constant studying and lack of "fun" activities for the students in India and China and they showed how the American students balance school with their social lives. The Americans were involved in more activities but the Chinese and the Indian students achieved higher excellence in their activities. In the end of the film I was very surprised to see that the Chinese and Indian students hadn't reached their goal because all I saw was the endless work they put towards it. The film said that the students from China and India spent twice the amount of time studying than the American students, yet they Americans were the ones to achieve their goals. The boy who got a full ride to Purdue said "I didn't prepare at all for the PSAT yet I was still offered a full ride to Purdue because I did so well." This hardly seems fair, yet he didn't cheat, so how is it not fair? Because the makers of the film made the viewer feel it was unfair by showing the hard work and dedication of the students from foreign countries. To me, THAT hardly seems fair.
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I really enjoyed the USA guy. He was all, "Oh yeah no big deal that I got a full ride and I don't have to try to be super smart. Blah blah blah I'm so cool." Sorry for the rant there... He just kind of bugged me and I'm glad you mentioned him. I agree one hundo percent to what you said about the film makers being unfair. Jerks. We all literally walked out of first block feeling like failures. I honestly said to Andrew, "Why should I even bother going to AP Stats third block?" I felt like such a fool. We aren't as lazy as we seem. I mean some of us are, but that's a different story. We work, get involved with activities, and have social lives. Sorry I don't sit in my room for ninety years reading a calc book before I go to bed! Jenny, you stirred up a little anger inside me... LOLZ. Yeah, that just happened. I feel like after that I have to work ten million times harder, but you know what? That must've been their goal all along: make it seem like we're all failures so we go out there and prove them wrong. AHHH curse their half genius-ness. I'm such a sucker.
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