> Many Europeans and Asians I’ve spoken to went to classes each day and then left school to do other things with other people In China those things would often

> Many Europeans and Asians I’ve spoken to went to classes each day and then left school to do other things with other people In China those things would often be cram schools. In Korea that’s even more common, practically universal. If you think the college rat race and obsession with prestige in the US is bad it’s nothing like as bad as in developed East Asia. (Japan may be slightly less awful but still much worse than anywhere in the cultural as opposed to political West.)