<p>I fail to see the value of the article. As a general rule, the social elite in all countries is ****ed up. I was momentarily shocked that people write books about how they made nearly two decades of a poor human being’s life all about getting to Harvard. I felt a certain poignancy while reading that the climax of someone’s existence is making it to Harvard rather than anticipating the future and the things they will do with their education. For a second, I wanted to denounce these people, to tell them how sick it was what they were doing to their children. But then I remembered U.S. college counselors, SAT prep classes, this website, these stupid notions of who “deserves” to go to college. The American social elite is fundamentally no different, it just appears more normal to me because it exists in the context of individualism and other western values that I’ve taken for granted my whole life (and continue to even now). </p>
<p>In a way though, I still feel pity for the Chinese and Asians in general. Because they’re behind–even the ones who are U.S. citizens and should have it as easy as everyone else. They’re behind the white social elite. Somehow, reality is constantly reinvented to suit the white man. If a white guy played piano, he was creative. If an Asian guy plays piano, he’s just another yellow applicant, they all play piano. White guys don’t play piano anymore, but Asians still do. For some reason they’re slow at catching the changing drifts. Piano’s out of style now.</p>