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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... Unlike in Korea or China, the result of one test doesn't determine your life path... [/quote]

is it still the case today though, especially korea? hard to believe when their products/innovations rivals apple's[/quote]
Yes, it is. The problem is that there are only a handful of conglomerates (called chaebols there) that provide almost life-time, good paying jobs. And if you go to one of only a handful of the top universities there, you are almost guaranteed to get a job at one of the conglomerates, or a cushy government job.  It is *very* difficult to go up in the food chain without having gone to one of these prestigious universities.

Here, you can go to a middling university and still end up doing really well in life by working hard, and maybe with a bit of luck sometimes. It's not so easy to do this in Korea.  This is one of the reasons why so many immigrants like America.  They like the "if you work really hard, you can make it" mantra.  So, that's why a lot of the Asian parents pressure their kids.  It's not because they don't care about their kids. Quite the opposite... they want their kids to do better than them, or have job security/guarantees, and they believe that you have to work really hard to achieve this because that's how it is in their home country.  They also know that Asians are a small minority in this country; Asians don't hold any of the political or corporate power.  So, to do well, you have to work hard.

This was an interesting piece I read about this topic:

http://nypost.com/2015/12/29/from-nyc-to-harvard-the-war-on-asian-success/[/quote]

"Of course, neither Aderhold nor parents in charge of sports are indulging nonathletic kids with a “right to fumble” and join a mostly non-Asian varsity football team."

perfect response to that racist superintendent of P-P schools in NJ. Mirrors exactly what a poster here said a few posts ago.

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