America Fear Not

My roommate (a reasonably intelligent woman with a strong personality and no nonsense attitude) had me slapping my forehead as she asked how to answer a question on an unreasonably long questionnaire pertaining to a new job. (She recently told her last employer to shove it and i was proud of her brass). It seemed to be some kind of personality slash behavior test but for the life of me i could not understand why it was so long. It seemed that she spent 5 hours on it total. The question asked of me was this:

her: "eh, these questions are so hard! I'll never finish this thing.

me: (insert Hero music as i make my entrance) What are they asking?

her: oh, thank god you're here! I need your help on how to answer this as i have no idea! (i may have embellished the first part of this line).

me: sure, what is it my damsel in distress? (This i said verbatim)

her: "7. What is management?" Like what?! How am i supposed to answer that?

me:

me:

me: um, seriously?

end scene

I then patiently shared what i had previously believed to be common sense knowledge of business and management.
Honestly China, education is more than just getting good math and science scores. Where is the critical thinking!? So, for all you Westerners out there worrying.... Sleeping Giant? How about "Sleeping Untaped Workforce"? Just leave the thinking to us little Eastern buddies.
So, to sum up...

West = 1
East = Zilch