Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
by skinnymuch on Saturday October 31, 2009 @03:13AM
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Americans understand your last line. In America, money is far more important to the vast majority of people than education. I'm pretty sure that's one of the reasons Euros use to feel above Americans. Education starts becoming important to how people perceive you when you're near upper middle class or above. And even then your success is more important.
When you say all these people have done all those successful things, are you talking about the entire history of your school? I couldn't understand if that is what you were talking about or if you were saying all those accomplishments happened with people who were in school as the same time as you (this is what I doubt).
Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
by xcombinator on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @02:25PM
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No, it was not my schoolmates, it was my father's ones, as I wrote before.
Yeah, american people are different to european, here and in asia education (and specially memorization) is very important. Some american people will find it difficult to understand that in Spain you could get to be public worker(and can't be fired) just making an exam.
I think is difficult to understand this, specially for american people.
The fact that some people don't quite understand is that making a successful restaurant or company is as difficult or more difficult that study and fill an exam.