I Love Hong Kong
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HK protesters reading school notes during a protest.
If there is anything that is common among the Asian cities of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore, it is this - the relentless pursuit of academic excellence and parents' obsession with grades. More often than not, the grades one gets, the schools that one attends determine the future outcomes.
But of course it is also true that when one puts in hours at book study, one may not always have a practical end in mind. In fact, I have seen that high achievers are almost always young people who are self-directed and do their studying as part of who they are and what they believe to be their duty as a young person.
I really feel for these students. It is always through struggle that people appreciate more what they work so hard to get.