Hey, I left my other comment on this post, for context you can read it.

I wanna hear your opinion on the matter of making it easier, is there a real way to make GaoKao an exam that doesn’t take away hours and hours of a young persons life, and if it does exist, then how?

As I guy who lived in China for 9 years as a 老外, I passed elementary school and for unforeseen reasons could not continue my stay in the country. In elementary, at least in my time, it was tougher than that of western schools, I was in a regular Chinese school and there were teachers who hit their students with rulers, but with time it smoothed out and I saw it less and less. Speaking of GaoKao, yeah, it’s fucking insane, last time i have talked to my old classmates I only have been able to do at weekends because only then does she(in her case) have time for that. I think the whole thing starts even before high school, in middle school, where the students start to get prepped. China is not solo in this one though, for example Russian ЕГЭ(and post Soviet countries in general) are also hard and matter a lot for your possibilities to get into a good uni without having to pay with your soul. Chinese case, is in my opinion, just eastern over-achieving, which should be made easier for the sake of poor students. In Russians case, it is the consequences of a broken education system.

Where does the text come from?

Good luck with life, comrade. Hope it goes well!

Yeah man, I agree. USA should do so too. Ya know, too big of a country eh? Texas and Florida should separate and California following them as an example. Especially California, I hate California.

Of course not, I was born in Siberia and since 4 have never lived long in the country. I mostly spent my time growing up in China and now live in Spain. But the US is a hell hole that I don’t have much enthusiasm to travel to.

When I was saying about that, is the small but somewhat existent choice of racists and past racists. It is not significant in the bigger picture but at least imposes a view of a politically involved country.