“Many people come home to have dinner and then study until bed,” (Psychology 43) showing that the Chinese heavily value their grades. Because of this emphasis on exam scores or their cultural values, the students can attempt to get an edge when there are “only 1.6 million new college-level jobs,” (43) for “4 million university graduates,” (43). In Jo Goodwin Parker’s speech, when she dictated the difficulty of coming home after a job which is “[coming] home to find the baby covered with fly specks and a diaper that ... when [it] came off, bits of my baby’s flesh came with it.” (Parker 257). Her inability to ameliorate her life depicts that there are just some issues that one cannot solve from simply hard work; she tried to
“Many people come home to have dinner and then study until bed,” (Psychology 43) showing that the Chinese heavily value their grades. Because of this emphasis on exam scores or their cultural values, the students can attempt to get an edge when there are “only 1.6 million new college-level jobs,” (43) for “4 million university graduates,” (43). In Jo Goodwin Parker’s speech, when she dictated the difficulty of coming home after a job which is “[coming] home to find the baby covered with fly specks and a diaper that ... when [it] came off, bits of my baby’s flesh came with it.” (Parker 257). Her inability to ameliorate her life depicts that there are just some issues that one cannot solve from simply hard work; she tried to