Imperial exams only normally emphasize humanity. Like any aristocracy, the ruling class is born and raised to care not the humanity, but their humanity's value

Imperial exams only normally emphasize humanity. Like any aristocracy, the ruling class is born and raised to care not the humanity, but their humanity's value to them. Imperial exams amplify those value and ideology by enforcing a strict caste systems in the classic reading, etc. That's not emphasis on humanity, that's emphasis on human caste.