"When we were young, the textbooks told us that China fed 22% of the world's population with just 7% of the world's arable land, but here's what they didn't tell us -- that this 22% of the world's population feeds 60% of the world's public servants; that this 22% of the world's population has only been given 3% of the world's education budget; that this 22% of the world's population has 97% of its wealth concentrated in the hands of the 1%; that this 22% of the world's population has been consuming 90% of the world's toxic food, paying the world's highest taxes and doing the most dirty and tiring work." more ›

Chinese kids are starting early these days. Someone over at the PCPop.com forum with a nephew attending first grade looked through his textbooks one day and was shocked at what sex education for first graders looks like in China these days — funny cartoons, witty dialogues, testicles that talk to one another, and cool-looking Mr Condoms wearing shades. We wish sex education was this fun for us when we were growing up. No, wait a minute, we don't remember getting any form of sex education back then. more ›