• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 hours ago

    If you believe there are better arguments to be made, go ahead.

    Well, you just did that. I was pointing out that your use of those images is misleading, and as critics, we should take the moral high ground.

    So much for your communist China.

    Not sure what you think about me. As an anarchist, I don’t have socially positive views of China.

    commercialised, mass-produced

    No. Albeit with a completely misguided target of technical skill, the admissions test is not a factory. And food and drink are, of course, allowed.

    then you are the ‘worse kid,’ which is an ideology in China where there is always a better child—Failure is not an option.

    Honestly, it’s just involution: Everyone always looks up to the better children and apply to the best school, whose exam is what we see here. However, failure is, in fact, an executable option. Just as there is always a better place, there is also always a worse place: a worse school to apply to instead of the one with a 2% acceptance rate, a worse place to live with a much better upkeep, a worse job where you can still apply your skills with the same comfort… The aforementioned streamers can always choose to pull up stakes and find other types of less gruelling careers, yet they’re not comfortable enough with the low-key: Unfortunately, investments in mental health education are way too low to counter the ingrained Chinese culture of overachievement, and that is a very big problem. Such involution is also a problem in the United States, especially in higher education, but we have much better access to online support.