<p>The author seems to be radical to go on and defame Chinese culture.
What he is describing probably does happen to a certain degree (about gaining a student who is able to pay full admission) but this is only to the government officials’ kids,which is a pretty small minority. In China, there’s still a “background” and “red envelop” culture. </p>
<p>The author is wayyy to extreme to suggest that Chinese culture encourages cheating by citing confucian culture ( something about that a person must spend decades copying his teacher to become an expert). Seriously, I don’t see anything about cheating in this. It is simply suggesting emulating a person and keep practicing will make you better ( I don’t get how this is cheating). For example, when reading a Chinese poem, the teacher probably won’t explain its meaning and will simply ask the students to memorize it by copying down repeatedly. Chinese ( I think many other Asian cultures as well) education does not emphasize on critical thinking, it emphasizes more on memorization, this is true, but I don’t see how this has to do with cheating.
No offense, but I can’t deny that Chinese seem to lie a lot in the business market ( the milk powder incident, poison toys, the crashed train, etc). A lot of Chinese students probably do cheat like the author of the article said, but I don’t know if it is as prevalent as the author stated. The only problem I have with the author is that he suggests that the Chinese culture encourages dishonesty. I think the Chinese are dishonest because of the negative influence they received during Mou’s rule, not because Chinese culture encourages it ( they have been brainwashed by Mou ).
By the way, there are more Chinese geniuses because there are more of them. For example, in China, there will be 1300 geniuses of one in a million rarity.</p>