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Celebrating mindless striving culture reeks of Asian chauvinism and begs the question of why the most high impact individuals - from technologists to artists - do not have cookie cutter childhoods that were mainly spent being groomed for the Ivy League.
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) December 26, 2024
Contrary to what Vivek⦠https://t.co/fcaOkeJFC2
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Yeah this is actually a good take. We should be doing everything we can to resist the asian-ification of our education system. That system is fine at producing subservient high-mids like meh software engineers or meh finance people or whatever. But I've never met a truly exceptional person who followed this path, and I've met people who were like literally the best student in their Chinese province of 250 million people. All the exceptional people I know were talented goof-offs or jocks.
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Yeah, if the Asian childraising and education system worked so much better than ours, I figure they would be a lot closer to having our per-capita wealth than they actually are. Obviously the US has some geographic advantages and so on, but despite those we would probably have been outstripped by now, rather than still being #1, if the Asian approach was superior.
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