A Taiwanese View of the Quebec Riots

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Did she really say,"Porice brutality" or did I just hear it that way?

You can see by the vid just how far we are getting behind China. This riot is just another excuse for Anarchists to play havoc.

I think there was something lost in translation here but funny never the less.

Is the CBC available in Taiwan? Is that what I'm seeing here?

Typical mindless stupidity from the entitled twits. And will somebody explain to me how anyhing can be, in this case, 12 times LESS? 8.25% of, maybe, but 12 times less? Is this the new math?

I love Tawainese humor :-) They yield the hammrt well.

This looks like the New York Times view of Occupy.

peterj:

Yeah, when I heard the narrator ask: "Do you think this protest is as ridiculous as our video?", I thought "Am I missing something here?". When they contrast how little Quebec students pay compared to US students (canuck66, 'x times less than y' is a Chinglish locution, where native English speakers would say reverse it and say 'y is x times more'.), I thought maybe the piece was intended to be satire. Still, my first response was like Cooper's: "WTF?!".

So what planet is this happening on???

The Taiwanese know us better than we know ourselves.

Damn, those cartoons they make are funny!

Not sure what TD has to do with this, but clearly the video makes fun of the QC student protesters.

I blame Harper!

TD = Taiwanese Dipwads.

This is the fascist youth league from China pointing fingers at the world's foibles. I love the vid about violence in hockey. The undetone in all these videos is the complete lack of knowlede of the subject matter - as if these commentaries are created inside a vacuum devoid of first hand experience. And that seems about right as these Chinese commentors are probably not allowed out of their insulated political environment and have the state reading their every keystroke before its released.

If there is an awkward propaganda we're-superior-to-you tone to these vids, consider the source.

I suspect the TD reference is a severe mix-up on NMA's part - it probably a reference to the austerity plan developed for, and ignored by, the McGuinty regime in Ontario by one-time TD chief economist Don Drummond.

I suspect satire.

I'm more sympathetic to the protesters on this one. Tuition increases are due to an education system run amok. The government guarantees that schools have an oversupply of money by making sure loans are available cheaply. The reason for the "cheap" loans is that the government guarantees them.

The loan company will not loose its money because the student cannot discharge the debt with bankruptcy. So, there's no need for them to make any pesky decisions like actually checking to make sure the student is going to pay back the loan. Any loans that can't be repaid are simply passed to the government, which has wage garnishment powers. This policy seals the supply side of the education bubble.

The other side of the coin is human resources departments controlling hiring. They overemphasize what a person looks like on paper, including requiring degrees, even when no degree is necessary. Have you ever heard someone say: "You have to have a degree, it doesn't matter what it's in. We just want to know you can finish something." That's the attitude that seals the demand side of the college economic bubble.

The result...is that in the past few decades, tuition costs have skyrocketed many times the cost of inflation. It's now commonplace for schools to spend gobs of money where they don't have to. Students see this. If they choose to do something while they're a student, their degree can be withheld, affecting their future employment. If they choose to do something after they graduate, they can be safely ignored.

I'm not surprised a few students in Canada want to raise awareness of this situation. Even though many of them don't know enough economics to understand what is going wrong, they know something's amiss because it's in their environment.

I think that some of the commentators here are irony-challenged. This video is funny but it is making fun not only of protestors
(the answer to "Do you think this protest is as ridiculous as our video?"
is "Hell yes!") but also of Canadians who put up with this nonsense.

Chinese do think that we are lazy.

Taiwan is a somewhat independent country which is semi-democratic. It is NOT the People's Republic.