[ajkjk]

Don't think they're becoming professors because of like.. nepotism. More like their family is culturally academic and heavily prioritizes/assumes that.

[PaulHoule]

I am not saying it is nepotism, but that people coming from the outside find it to be an alien culture and find it hard to fit in.

[jorl17]

I am from Portugal and in my experience this is the reason.