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Jiang does not deny that this motivational strategy can work instrumentally; he explicitly notes that many students do reach elite universities through it.
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Elite universities
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And I'm sure a lot of your students have succeeded, right? They've gone to like really top universities."
Key Notes
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Jiang says modern schooling trains children into endless competition, funnels them through more elite competition, and likely leaves them unhappy even when they succeed.
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Jiang challenges the assumption that meritocracy delivers more mobility than aristocracy and points students toward elite universities as evidence of class reproduction.
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A student points to legacy admissions as evidence that elite universities already operate with aristocratic features inside so-called meritocracy.
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Jiang says elite universities with many legacies already look like an aristocracy or oligarchy rather than a pure meritocracy.
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Jiang says the deep state has multiple layers, including intelligence agencies, supranational bureaucracies, elite universities, and old families, but he treats secret societies as the main institution operating today.
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Jiang argues many Chinese students going to the United States are not top performers but students who failed to get into elite Chinese universities and are academically underprepared for success abroad.
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"And I'm sure a lot of your students have succeeded, right? They've gone to like really top universities."
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"we don't there's something deeper though yeah I mean like okay I mean like let's think about how schools work nowadays right kids go..."
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"...than in an aristocracy okay um I suggest going to an elite university and like just doing a study of like how many rich..."
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"yes isn't half of all elite universities like Legacy yes I I appreciate that yes I I wait yes and are you calling that..."
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"situation where um basically half the kids at these elite universities um but but not at Yale right no not a year um so..."
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"them I mean yeah so I think there are many different facets to global deep state um you obviously have these organizations right the..."
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"I think that a lot of people believe... made in heaven, but if you actually look at what's happening, it's a marriage made in..."
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"...aristocracy which is purely Legacy so like right now in American Elite University if you read Columbia professors um the excellent sheep it talks..."
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"...interesting about the point with the Chinese students coming to our elite universities and going back, I really just had not really considered the..."
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"Well, a team of professors, professors at the very elite universities in China, Tsinghua University. And I don't want to talk to these people..."
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