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Hong Kong media: Chinese parents will not let their children go to the United States to study for useless degrees

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"The U.S. should attract students from the big Eastern countries to study humanities and social sciences, rather than blindly guarding them from gaining access to U.S. science and technology."

Recently, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell's statement has become a hot topic of discussion in society for a while, and Deputy Secretary of State Campbell's statement has also sparked controversy in all walks of life.

Hong Kong media: Chinese parents will not let their children go to the United States to study for useless degrees

In this statement, humanities courses account for the majority of mainland students' study subjects, and for humanities courses, people have defended them, saying: "Humanities courses and science and technology do not conflict."

At the same time, some people have expressed dissatisfaction with the series of accusations made by the United States against mainland students in recent years, believing that the United States is acting as a restrictive measure against the mainland.

Moreover, in recent years, the United States has imposed "card visas" and a series of academic restrictions on mainland students, which have also caused people to speculate about the purpose of the United States.

Hong Kong media: Chinese parents will not let their children go to the United States to study for useless degrees

They should not be mutually exclusive, but mutually reinforcing.

The field of education should be an open and inclusive environment, and the United States, as a world power in science and technology, has a very strong talent force, so why would it obstruct some other big countries such as the mainland?

First of all, judging from the current study situation of mainland students, there is still a discrepancy with the popular topic among students, "Is the humanities bad?" a major reason why the United States obstructs mainland students is related to business.

Hong Kong media: Chinese parents will not let their children go to the United States to study for useless degrees

Subjects such as accounting and finance have a wide range of employment opportunities in the mainland, and from the admission scores of famous universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University over the years, these scores have always been very high.

Therefore, this also brings suspicion to the general opinion of mainland students, and the reason for this suspicion is also obvious, that is, we can often hear the words of some older generations, basically only humanities can have a way out, and there is no way out for business.

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