What being filthy rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, and 2000 AD

Re:What being filthy rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, a... by catlover76 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:25PM (#38008027)

> You look in ANY American colleges, you will find "East Asians" a lot even more so in Ivy Leagues

uhh so? X% of those are American of East Asian descent, and, regardless, East Asian != Chinese

Granted, you see plenty of wealthy Chinese at the graduate level at Ivies because they have $$ and want the social currency, but that's not the substance of true educational domination.

I don't necessarily disagree with your overall thesis; I'm not qualified to say one way or the other. Just pointing out this alleged datum doesn't support it.

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Re:What being filthy rich in China looked like in 1, 1000, a... by avandelay1 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:41AM (#38009196)

Also a lot of these Chinese fake their standardized tests (had a friend for whom this was his job in China) to get in and fake the academic work (I went to an ivy, this actually happened, chinese sending other people in for tests…). At least at the high end (second generation wealthy “fuerdai”) it’s a culture of shortcuts where only the outcome is important, not improving as a human.

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