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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
A huge reason is this American fascination towards liberal arts.
In many Asian countries, there is a stigma that "liberal arts are for losers". In most Chinese schools, we can see a trend that smart kids go into science and engineering, the not so smart ones go into finance and commerce, and the absolute bottom of the pack go into the arts.
Thus at the high school level, anybody who isn't too dumb would go and study the maths and sciences, wereas with american students, too many of them would not study math and science, since they are aiming to study liberal arts in university.
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If this is true, then it goes hand in hand with the misguided belief that getting a college degree, ANY college degree, is the gateway to prosperity. A myth that one could probably say was fabricated by the industry for higher education. It's quite the racket..... errr i mean business these days, which also spills over into the finance industry with government subsidized loans creating an entire generation of indentured servants holding meaningless college degrees they'll be paying on until they die or 20 years has elapsed, whichever comes first.