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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched Dead Poets Society in the '80s and '90s and thought, 'Wow, the upper class in the US is intense.'

It’s just that the US has a much wider social spectrum, which provides more flexibility and options.
Countries like Japan and Korea have a narrower and more compact social spectrum, hence higher expectations and more competition.

There are pros and cons in each, of course, just like anything else. 
The pros of a more compact social spectrum include lower crime rates, common social ground, and so on.

[/quote]Dead Poets is about the high school class of 1960. My dad went to a similar high school, in that class, and chose Yale over Tufts because Tufts required an essay and Yale did not. He studied engineering despite not reaching calculus in high school. I’m really not sure how that world is relevant to the one our kids are living in. [/quote]

Do you think the world has changed much? I don't think so.
Look at how much the upper class in the US obsesses over name-brand colleges for their kids. 
This is a fairly recent example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal[/quote]

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