The obsession that educated Americans have with Harvard is only possible in a world with extreme levels of inequality and class segregation.
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This guy might want to look up China’s Gini coefficient
This guy chose China cause it’s a billion plus people. We can do India next. If your point is that the entire world is obsessed with status, then yes, you’ve made a true statement
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Obsessed with status as defined by the United States, which is an extremely important distinction for a global hegemony to make.
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US doesn’t define the status of Tsinghua University or Indian Institute’s of Technology or French grand ecoles. Most Americans have never even heard of those places. And yet, the people in those countrified are just as obsessed with who gets into them as we are with the Ivies
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This guy might want to look up India's Gini coefficient
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