Karla Albrecht
Eng 191
Section 21
10/27/09

China


China is the most populated country in the world. According to CIA World Fact Book as of July 2009 China has a populations of 1,338,612,968. There are laws in effect that limit the number of children that couples have and I think it is because of the large population. If both of the parents are only children then they are allowed to have two children but if they have siblings of their own then they can only have a single child. For every child you have over the amount the government ok’s you do have you have to pay around $5,000 at the time of their birth. That child also will not receive any financial help or insurance from the government.

Children are very precious in China because they number of them that each couple can have is so limited. In turn expectations of only children are very high. Their parents expect them to do the very best in school, get into the best universities, and the get the best jobs with the best pay. Because of this there is a lot of pressure to do well in high school to get off to a good start. They have to
devote a lot of time to their studies to do well because it is very competitive.

Authentic Chinese food is very different from the kind of Chinese food I am used to here in the United States. Most of the meat like chicken is coated in breading when you go to a local Chinese restaurant here in the U.S., but in China this is not the case. The meat there is just plain meat without any coating on it at all. It may have different kind of spices but no breading. They also eat mostly cooked vegetables and rarely eat them fresh. Another thing that is different between authentic Chinese food and Americanized Chinese food is the use of cheese. Cheese is never used in traditional Chinese dishes. In Americanized Chinese food like cream cheese wantons cheese is obviously present. In restaurants in china food is also prepared very beautifully and has a lot of detail put into it. They have all kinds of pretty little deserts and things like mini cakes.

-https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world factbook/geos/ch.html (CIA World Fact Book) 10/20/2009