Peter Ford writes at the Christian Science Monitor
"Web opens world for young Chinese, but erodes respect
Armed with outside ideas and information, teens are challenging their teachers. And some schools welcome it ..."
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Instead learning from books and from what teachers had to tell, today Chinese children learn from the whole world ... as students learn from foreign cultures they will definitely feel more global and more international ...
"I'm part of international society now," Xi Haixin says, listing the Miami Heat as his favorite basketball team, rhythm and blues as his favorite music, and "Spider-Man 3" as the best film he has seen recently ...
More than 70 percent of Chinese children between ages 7 and 15 had used the Internet in 2006 at least once, according to a survey conducted by the China Youth and Children Research Center last year. The number of children living in urban areas using the Internet in 2006 is around 87 percent. More than half of town-dwelling children today live in homes with an Internet connection.
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More about China Internet:
CNNIC's The 19th Statistical Survey Report on Internet Development in China (PDF)
