I've figured it out...

So in my cultural diversity class we've been talking about world religions and so this last week we were talking about Doism and Confusicium which are Chinese religions. And one of the girls in the class said that she had tried to talk to her sister who lives in China about their religions and she'd never heard of them. Well, she didn't recognize the names and so when the girl in my class told her that they were names of religions her sister wasn't surprised that she hadn't heard of them. And this girl basically found out from her sister that the majority of China population is Athiest, because it's a communistic country and the government won't let them practice their religions. So their temples haven't been used in a long time and there is always the possibility that some of the people say that they're athiest but they still have their religion at home. (so the governement isn't aware of it) But that is just sad...and it also explains alot as to why there aren't LDS missionaries in China. (except for Hong Kong which has a different government with it)

This actually explains alot also in relation to a meeting I went to a few weeks ago about China. This group called Link is trying to spread awareness that a huge percentage of Korea is in poverty and due to that alot of them try to get into China so that they don't starve. But they of course go in without passports and the pretty much get caught and sent right back to Korea...unless they are sneaky and can hide out somewhere. In the movie which was filmed in 2005 said that pretty much anyone who went back to Korea who had tried to go into China would end up in 'death camps', which I'm not going to explain since the name explains itself. So anyways, I guess some Americans have tried to talk to China and convince them to let the Korean refugees stay, but it hasn't done any good. Because they keep insisting that they're getting in illegally and what not. So after finding out this thing about the government and religion it actually isn't to surprising that they are so against Korean's coming in, even if they are half dead from starvation. I guess though that in Korean this Link group has started a underground raidroad system. Which is that they can go underground, but through donation funds and such Link helps them get to Mongolia, USA and other places. So it's not as bad as it sounds...but it's still pretty bad. To think I went to this presentation just to get 5 extra points in stats and it had absolutely nothing to do with research.

But my roommates prediction that I will be the first person ever to go on a mission to China 100% chance won't be happening...:) Actually I could go to Hong Kong...I almost forgot about that one.