Yeah but also…I knew a lot of Asian kids (from Asia, not Asian Americans) who thought spending the entire night in the library sleeping at a table with one’s head in a book was much more of a display of hard work than studying in the library for two hours and then going to one’s own bed to sleep. I also had a CCP Chinese coteacher in the US who would tell EVERYONE about how she was there until 8:30 last night, yet she was running off to make copies two minutes after class was supposed to start and clearly hadn’t prepared ANYTHING for class.
So it’s cultural. In the US, you get the work done and show the work. In Asia, you show how much time you spent on the work and that’s all that matters, even if the work isn’t done.
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