[mikebelanger]

I like how you're insinuating that current Chinese students are acting entitled by wanting heating and air conditioning in their dorms. Whereas in Canada/US, heating/air conditioning in dorms is considered a basic :P We really are spoiled in the West.

[bruceb]

He is not saying they are acting entitled. Just saying it is a change from the past when they were ok accepting what we would consider lower standards as they didn't have much choice.

[mikebelanger]

Oh I see, I guess I was just struck by the difference in expectations of students in the west and even (some) of the ones in China - and I leaped to conclusions from there.

[seanmcdirmid]

For the older generation, ha, but the younger generation has higher expectations.

[namlem]

Tons of dorms in the US still have no air conditioning.

[seanmcdirmid]

imagine some place hotter than Atlanta without AC. That damn Yangtze river line: the north of it gets heat in the winter, the south of it gets AC in the summer, it isn't as accurate as you'd think.

[amateurpolymath]

I can imagine it. Went to a university in Florida that had dorms without AC.