Friday 3 September 2010
Asia
Asia is young. Cultures are indeed as ancient and direct as the Egyptians, and as bifurcated and reformed and mis-made as anything in the West, but the thing I notice most is the youth of people and the rapid and escalating modernity of all the cities, especially Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and every city, every place, in China. These are just full of young people who have grown up with an appreciation of education and are going at it with great gusto in profoundly competitive systems that we western folk have never had to experience. From an outside perspective, its like the massive 'intellectualisation' of a giant region of the world.
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I forget the 'stats' but its something like this: Of all those who meet the strict criteria for Harvard Medical School, a third are Asian, and most of them are young women; and numerically, many more westerners apply than do folk from Asia.If the Universities accepted all only on the basis of intellectual competency,rather than on national or racial blocks, then most of Harvard, Eton, Stanford, ANU, and all the most highly viewed universities, would be well and truly Asian students by now.
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