I Have a Question

Why do people insist the Japanese have the best school system? I grew up in the 80s and everybody talked abt how we had it too easy and we should be like the Japanese who went to school at least 8 hrs a day and then went home and did hours and hours of homework every night. It sounds like a very cruel system to me and from what I hear the adults don't even work 40 hrs a wk. So why expect kids to work over 50 hours on schoolwork? It sounds like they are punishing kids just for being kids. I could imagine the American adults who want to have the harsh Japanese system never had to work that hard as children nor would they willing to now. End of rant

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bijouxbroussard · F

Typical case of people trying to laud one cultural norm over another without understanding [b]other[/b] aspects of the countries involved. Japan has a mostly homogeneous culture with a majority of their population growing up with similar beliefs. The U.S. couldn’t be less like that.