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Being a minority means being an ambassador and representative of your entire community, whether you like it or not. You don’t have a choice in this. Your life is a battleground of collective worries and anxieties, both ingroup and outgroup
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> He was one of three soldiers who failed the test at the Windsor base. > The identities of the other guardsmen have not been revealed. sigh twitter.com/ShivaniDave/st…
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If you want to mess with a child, an effective way to do it is to go through the parents. The child might not fully understand the complex and elaborate way you’re trying to shame him, but he’ll notice that his parents are anxious, angry and afraid
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Circling back - I didn’t notice this at the time, but this particular letter mentions two issues: internal motivation and poor study habits. I still have poor study habits 😂 but internal motivation was never actually, properly addressed. I wonder why 🤔
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The cool thing about having had this experience and having spent over a decade reflecting on it is that I’ve gotten pretty sensitive to buried assumptions and derivative reasoning. So much of social reality is buried assumptions and derivative reasoning
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Gd question! I think everyone was under pressure. I think the GEP teachers were under pressure to make sure their kids succeeded- it was a small class (13 kids?) and one kid flunking would’ve been a big smudge on both the teacher’s record, and the system’s
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God this is MEAN. How can teachers write so insentively with complete lack of empathy
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Interesting to consider then the sheer amount of weight that was on my 13-year-old back - my parents’, my teachers’, the Indian community’s, and arguably the GEP itself, at the time the crown jewel of Singapore’s education system. My failure would hurt *everyone*. Seemed like it!
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It’s hard to overstate how much this entire experience has shaped who I am as a person. A part of me still constantly needs to prove that I can be a valuable asset to my community - to any community - and not by jumping through hoops and passing tests, but by being who I am.
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