This is also really reductionist. “Good spots” were scarce in China, Japan and the USSR too. You could be (1) Asian in China, (2) cognitively capable (3) but still part of the group of 19 kids who didn’t get the 1 spot…
> even though they came… in poverty That was always reductionist. Many emigres from China, Japan, Korea, USSR states, the Middle East and India arrived with high education levels. For 20th century society, where war…
This is also really reductionist. “Good spots” were scarce in China, Japan and the USSR too. You could be (1) Asian in China, (2) cognitively capable (3) but still part of the group of 19 kids who didn’t get the 1 spot…
> even though they came… in poverty That was always reductionist. Many emigres from China, Japan, Korea, USSR states, the Middle East and India arrived with high education levels. For 20th century society, where war…