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>their kids to schools such as Eton, Harrow How is it bad? If the Russian elite would be at least partly be indoctrinated in the western values it could only d

• eloisius 5y ago
  The assumption you’re making is that they soak up liberal values and not just lucrative training and connections. I’d be interested to see if anyone has compiled any evidence one way or the other, but at the very least we, in liberal democracies, should consider it an injustice to allow someone who has imprisoned and tortured their own citizens and pilfered their own country to use their ill-gotten gains to buy the most elite educations available. Spots not even within grasp of the vast majority of English or Americans in their own countries. I’m an American and I’d never even have a dream of attending an Ivy League, yet Xi Jinping’s daughter went to Harvard and Carrie Lam’s son is a postdoc at Stanford right now. Surely all these tyrants’ children aren’t the smartest, highest IQ students by coincidence, actually deserving of the spots. They’ve been able to buy their way in with blood money, and we should look at look at institutions that enable that with shame and disgust.
  • heavenlyblue 5y ago
    From my experience of easier European background living in London most of the kids who are indoctrinated will just stay in London completely cutting off their parents in the end. But they will not change that country for the better.
• stimpsonjcat 5y ago
  Having gone to school with a number of their “elite”. On the whole, They don’t integrate and are never indoctrinated into western values. They’re there for the education and london.