True. If I may digress, Asians really may seem to work harder than many of us when it comes to straight physical labor, and work longer hours, but I can say firsthand that Westerners are better at being both more innovative/creative, as well as efficient. Efficient as in, we can get the same amount of work done in a 40 hour workweek, whereas they're working 80 hours fucking off at work all day (which we all do to an extent, but sleeping on the job and mandatory two hour lunches with the boss are regular here). That's another thing -- because of the heirarchy bullshit, you can't leave work until your boss does. (if you're korean, that is) So if your boss stays till 8 or 9 or later at night, you're usually stuck staying too. And because the boss feels bad about this, rather than changing the status quo and making them go home, he takes everybody out to dinner with LOTS of Soju, which is mainly why alcoholism is so rampant in this country. Which of course, causes 6 year old kids to not have much of a father figure their whole lives.
The schools here don't build creativity at ALL. It's almost all rote memorization of facts, and they discourage diverging from the norm. I know this isn't really news, but to see it firsthand is pretty depressing -- almost everything is homogenous here, if something new gets adopted, EVERYBODY does it. Individuality is not a wanted characteristic.
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