He..ll..oo! Are you with the tour? No? Well never mind... c’mon in, fill
your coffee mug, grab hold of a virtual muffin or doughnut and enjoy it anyway!
Great to see you BTW. While we’re talking tours...
Chinese media reports that a growing number of parents are taking their
children on special tours of luxury villas, to stimulate their desire to become
wealthy and successful.
On weekends, most parents take their kids to the playground, maybe to a
museum, shopping mall or on a relaxing picnic, but in China, some parents
use these family outings to inspire their young ones to study hard so one day
they can afford to live a life of luxury.
Companies like Heming Island Resort and Spa, in Qingyuan, Guangdong
Province, offer families the chance to visit luxury villas worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars, which are meant “to stimulate a child’s desire to
become wealthy and successful”. These holiday homes are apparently becoming a
popular tool for parents who want their offspring to learn that being rich is a
sign of “high social status and success”. (Then they’d be able to support
their parents in their old age, eh!)
A spokesperson for Heming Island Resort and Spa speaking to Chinese
magazine Youth.cn said that the company holds these luxury villa
tours on Saturdays and Sundays, for around 50 families every week. However, the
tours were particularly popular this Children’s Day weekend, with over 300
families opting to take part in them.
During the course of their visit, parents will generally tell their kids
that wealth represents success, and if they work hard during school they will
one day afford to have a beautiful home of their own, expensive cars and
become social elite.
As you can imagine, this sort of materialistic teaching has received a
lot negative feedback, since the news went viral online. Many consider it an
“unhealthy and distorted value” that pushes children to always put money first
in life.
GB Times has selected a number of user comments from
Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter:
@NameGPS: Success is money, money, money!! Both one’s soul and body are
slaves of money! How ridiculous has the world become?!
@So-close: It is an extreme example of teaching children. I was taught
“Money can’t bring happiness” from an early age. Thank goodness I have good
parents with normal values.
@West-wind: Don’t those children complain to their parents about having
no ability to afford the villa? Maybe the event is just a publicity stunt from
the estate agent.
However, not everyone feels the same way. For example one user had this
to say:
@Yimohanyi: I think we should treat the news more rationally. Success
does include making more money. It is not a bad thing if people can become rich
and realize their dreams, as long as they do so via legal means. So please
don’t be overly critical of others’ educational methods.
Would you take your kids on one of these luxury tours to inspire them to
become wealthy?
Hey...why the heck not!
See ya, eh!
Bob
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