Make Skilled Trades Great AgainMen are depressed, suicidal, and falling behind women in four-year colleges. Revitalizing trade schools can help.
By John Mac Ghlionn
March 15, 2022
Right now, the Chinese Communist Party is busy promoting a new form of techno-nationalism, with cutting-edge technologies being used to advance nationalist agendas, all in the hope of creating a stronger, more unified national identity. The Chinese have a term, jǔ guó, which basically means “the entire country.” It explains the rise of this techno-nationalism; and it also explains the rise of what I call edu-nationalism.
China is now home to the largest vocational education system in the world. Each year, according to China Daily, a mouthpiece of the Chinese regime, vocational schools offer courses in 1,200 professions and train roughly 10 million professionals.
In 2019, the CCP designated 100 billion yuan (roughly $15 billion) to the expansion of the country’s vocational training system, in an attempt to create the next generation of carpenters, plumbers and electricians. China doesn’t import its skilled tradesmen; it creates them.
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Meanwhile, how about the U.S.? What is happening in the most powerful country in the world?
Being male is the single largest demographic factor for early death in the United States. As Warren Farrell has noted, before puberty, “the suicide rates among males and females are about equal.” However, between the ages of ten and 14, “boys commit suicide at almost twice the rate of girls.” Things only get worse from there. “Between fifteen and nineteen, boys commit suicide at four times the rate of girls; and between twenty and twenty-four, the rate of male suicide is between five and six times that of females.”
Young men without a college degree are far more likely to take their own lives than young men with a bachelor’s degree. Today, fewer American men are going to college. Meanwhile, 60 percent of college enrollees are female. A gender gap has emerged, and with each year that passes that gap grows wider. Before long, the gap will be a chasm, with more and more men falling into the abyss.
Of course, traditional, four-year degrees are not for everyone. What, if anything, can be done to help young men across the country? Well, let us consider what is occurring in China, and discuss the benefits of pursuing a trade.
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/make-skilled-trades-great-again/
