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by elgar1212 1295 days ago
> Students are only taught rote memorization from primary school onwards. They spend their formative years in before-school and after-school coaching doing more of the same, all to crack that single test which will determine their future (and a large number are driven to suicide because of it). No curiosity, no outside interests, no social skills, no independent thought. All of these are discouraged in favor of memorizing equations.

You do realize that this is the same language that universities like Harvard use to discriminate against Asian Americans (and historically against Jewish people)?

Reading this and knowing that you're talking about South Asians in particular, this comment just comes off as stereotypical and racist