英國學(xué)子來滬江接受獨(dú)家采訪

英國學(xué)子來滬江接受獨(dú)家采訪

Hostess: what did you do during these six weeks?
Dominic: for the second two weeks, we spent in the Sino British College, it’s near the Jin?An area. We carried out research project about how the west affected China, especially Shanghai. This project is more about Chinese culture.
Josh: the project based more about the language barriers and how they affect some people make into the population of Shanghai. Well educated people have been learning English for quite some time and how that removes the language barriers when western people come in trying to communicate in places like Shanghai and Beijing.

Hostess: do you find any difference between British students and Chinese students?
Dominic: yes, Chinese works so hard. One said he went home and has to do homework. I said how much homework do you got a week, I think he said something like four hours. I don’t think I did that much homework in my life.
Josh: most people in the UK, I mean in school, they get generally about two or three hours homework a week, Chinese people did their homework and the English people generally don’t. They can get something doing out they will, it’s just the difference and motivation. The English people are motivated just trying to do little as possible.
Dominic: in China, your teacher can affect your final grade, in England does not. Our final grade is decided by course work. So all the works on you , the teacher won’t carry you fail. It’s quite different the method, so the students are different.
Josh: people in the UK seems to go independently very quickly, your people in China rather stay attach to the parents. So that’s a difference in maturity.

Hostess: what do you do after school?
Dominic: in the UK nowadays we go to the pool, play cool and chat. We won’t stay at home much.
Josh: on day to day bases, the general people would like go to college or go to school and then they come home, then we get changed, have a shower, have something to eat, then they just spent as much time as they could out and they go back home to sleep.

Hostess: what is the popular topic in UK youngsters?
Dominic: football.
Josh: and some other things that a lot of people would like to talk about, movies or music. Music is very popular. Face to face conversation actually dying in the UK, because more and more people communicate through the internet.

Hostess: now in China more and more people like to talk on the internet rather than face to face, what do you think of that?
Dominic: it’s getting more and more common, we tend to socialize more. School, is to develop social skills a lot and as well as education. So we don’t work as we talk.
Josh; it’s like the opposite of Chinese schools. In UK, you can learn new things with your friends. In China, is more time learning, less time [wv=socialize]socializing[/wv], it’s just the opposite in the UK.

Hostess: what are the most popular movies, TV shows in the UK?
Josh: it depends on the tastes among different people.
Dominic: I like the batman movie a lot.
Josh: some people like American TV shows, some like English TV shows. A lot of people like comedy, it’s very popular in the UK. But the UK comedy is very different from everybody’s comedy. UK comedy is very specific, it’s appears to UK people. As a general rule, people outside UK don’t understand UK’s humor. We find things funny that everybody doesn’t.

Hostess: during this trip, you have been to some companies to do your intern, what did you learn from this?
Dominic: the reason I came here is to learn business in China. I learnt a lot about insurance business in Britain.
Josh: personally, I found a lot of successful companies they set less about making money, more about making choices from there. If you keep a successful business, people keep coming back to you. I enjoyed my two weeks in business. The value is most about my time spent in Shanghai, but a lot of the time, which I said is talking to people.

Hostess: which college do you want to go after you go back to England?
Dominic: we are not definitely go to college because this program is not for educate people. I won’t to go to college at all, so I will go to work.

Hostess: so after you go back, you will find a job?
Dominic: maybe work for one year then go to college.
Josh: if you have a degree is very good, but a lot of people become more successful without getting a degree. One business man in the UK, he never went to college. When he was 16, he left school, and now he is one of the richest business men in the UK. Degree is not something you need, is just something you have to have to put you into the dance floor.