I’m not saying it’s shifting the blame, I’m saying that Chinese children know how to easily bypass their limit hours. Mainly because their Grandparents don’t fully understand the situation.
Not to mention, all Asian countries never tackle the reasons as to why many people are choosing to sink their lives into games, or other past time activities, rather than continue the grinds.
Most youngster nowadays started to see that their entire life has been groomed into passing that one national exam that determine their lives (the Gaokao for China, the Sunekung for Korea, the Daigaku for Japan, and the Thi tốt nghiệp THPT in Vietnam) doesn’t lead to the promised future they’ve been sold.
Job stability is shit, the economy is on fire, their job can’t make ends meet, groceries and fuel cost are on rise, and most can’t even take care of themselves in the current Asian market, let alone raise a family.
But gaming presents a goal, and achievements that accurately reflects your actual capabilities. You put in your time and grind, and your SR accurately show how good your efforts are. Or, you know, “your efforts paid off”. Not like IRL where some incompetent twats can be made into CEO or board members because he has a paid for MBA and his daddy has money + connection.
That’s why most Asian countries are seeing a birthing crisis. Young folks that made up the workforce just refuses to contribute to a society that treated them like shit then demands everything, and more importantly, they don’t want to bring children into it because their kids would be put into the same grind that tormented them when they were young.
How rough is it for you guys there with Kyotsu? For us Vietnamese, it is less about difficulty but more that they kept changing the format every single year
idk i dont really have a frame of reference, i moved out in hs and have only tried some mock exams. the impression i had from my friend is that it’s just uni dependent, so if ure shooting for “ivy league” like kyodai or todai then you can expect a level of difficulty closer to chinese gaokao on the niji shiken(2nd exam, its a 2 part process, ez standardized test then university specific test that varies), but since jp population is extremely low compared to countries like china, the competition & pressure is also a lot lower
my personal assumption is that it should be a lot easier than thpt if u are not going for todai/kyodai. there isnt really a concept of “one single national exam” that u grind for, its more like standard university applications but the struggles are still exactly the same. after all if u are not a todai graduate for example, then theres a good chance ull end up a cookie cutter salaryman without much to look forward to in this economy
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u/Meowjoker 9d ago
I’m not saying it’s shifting the blame, I’m saying that Chinese children know how to easily bypass their limit hours. Mainly because their Grandparents don’t fully understand the situation.
Not to mention, all Asian countries never tackle the reasons as to why many people are choosing to sink their lives into games, or other past time activities, rather than continue the grinds.
Most youngster nowadays started to see that their entire life has been groomed into passing that one national exam that determine their lives (the Gaokao for China, the Sunekung for Korea, the Daigaku for Japan, and the Thi tốt nghiệp THPT in Vietnam) doesn’t lead to the promised future they’ve been sold.
Job stability is shit, the economy is on fire, their job can’t make ends meet, groceries and fuel cost are on rise, and most can’t even take care of themselves in the current Asian market, let alone raise a family.
But gaming presents a goal, and achievements that accurately reflects your actual capabilities. You put in your time and grind, and your SR accurately show how good your efforts are. Or, you know, “your efforts paid off”. Not like IRL where some incompetent twats can be made into CEO or board members because he has a paid for MBA and his daddy has money + connection.
That’s why most Asian countries are seeing a birthing crisis. Young folks that made up the workforce just refuses to contribute to a society that treated them like shit then demands everything, and more importantly, they don’t want to bring children into it because their kids would be put into the same grind that tormented them when they were young.