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[prlester]

The degrees don't speacialize because they would have more trouble finding visa sponsorship in the U.S. A large part of India's education system is geared to feeding workers to the West. When my profession changed to a doctorate, India immediately followed suite when other countries, like Australia, stayed at the masters.
Hindu culture stresses socio-economic advancement at the expense of the liberal arts. "logic and open debate?", whoever said that is not familiar with Hindu culture. My Hindu coworkers don't even have a the originality to crack or understand jokes. Logic, opinions have no place with this population set; it's strictly sucking up to the boss and peeing on the inferiors. Success, as measured in degrees, is all that matters--even financial success is secondary (though that's part of the equation). There are literally tens of workers from India in my company. They don't complain, don't read books, don't look at art. Adjusted for purchasing power, they only make 20% more here then back home; it's all about the petite middle-class prestige.

[rxk22]

[Glenski]

[Cool Teacher]

I think that Japan did really well for a time but maybe when a country gets so rich that most people have comfortable lives then maybe the purpose of studying so hard disappears so instead children in Japan are simply going through the motions of studying but without the motivation.

I don't blame them who wants to work as many hours as so many of these kids do? Not me!

As for India this generation knows that education is an important step for getting out of poverty and making their lives better. In a generation or two when more people in India are rich the kids will start getting a bit spoiled and soon maybe they will go the same way as the Japanese now. Or maybe they will go the way of the west and think that university is a place to waste time making up pointelss theories abot litereature.

Actually I used to work at a call centre and some of the work was outsourced to India. When I read the notes by the English employees it was usually very sloppy with spelling mistakes, bad grammar bad punctuation and difficult to understand shortened words but the notes that were written in India were usually very good with much better English than the English the English wrote. In fact, maybe an Indian writing this would say that their notes were "impeccable".

I suppose that's more to do with the fact that people who need to have high standards will do that. So, if you think about it with so many people in India it is really important to impress the people you work for and to be competitive. But in England I think if someone said to a person working there, "Could you try to write better Englsih please. I can't read this" maybe the worker there would say, "Oh F@*;#in' 'ell, mate what's the problem? Don't have a go at me about a bleedin' spellin' mistake. I bet your perfect aren't you?" with sarcasm. So the boss usually has to just either put up with that until eventually all the jobs get outsourced to India where people will work better for a lower wage.

[rxk22]