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I think people like the narrative of east vs west. There is some truth to generalizations. conformity vs nonconformity. tiger moms vs independence. Discussions like this always rem…

The US has a major advantage over all countries. And Japan has an advantage over the vast majority of countries. The reason for that is probably how developed their economies are.

of course it stops working at some point because the next level of achievement is simply a higher bar that weeds out more people.