Planting The Rice Paddy Chapter Summary

In chapter 8, the writer Gladwell mainly talks about the relationship between peasants planted the rice paddy and Asian children are good at math. Peasants in China are very hard working because they worked from dawn to noon in order to plant the rice paddy. They are hardworking because they spent three thousand years on planting the rice paddy without any leisure time. For planting the rice, they built a dike to provide water for the paddy and also gave the nutrition for them. But, you must carefully give the appropriate water and nutrition for them otherwise the paddy will die. So, you must be patient to take care of these paddies. The theory of planting the rice paddy also can use in studying math. You take the math question, the most
According to what the author wrote, this part only proves that Asian students are more successful in learning math than American students because of the more transparent number system. But, the main idea of this chapter is hard working can lead to success. This part didn’t contribute to the author’s main idea of the whole chapter. Readers will be confused about this. In this chapter, the author also use Europe peasants compared with Asian peasants, found that Europe peasants were lazy and spend less time on cultivating to stand out Asian peasants are hard working. For example, he wrote “in the discovery of france, the historican Graham, even well into the Nineteenth century, was essentially brief episodes of work followed by long periods of idleness” (p234). Because the author wants to say the European are lazy and to strongly stand out the Asian peasants are hardworking. Asian peasants are hard working and people in their country inherit this character. However, this can’t indicate that all European. It’s false to use a small group to determine the whole group in one country because some people lazy does not mean the whole people in the country are all lazy or