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He uses his own move from North America to China as an example of seeking status, saying he could make money in America but could not achieve high status there as an East Asian man.
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Jiang Biography
He uses his own move from North America to China as an example of seeking status, saying he could make money in America but could not achieve high status there as an East Asian man.
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Jiang’s surface Yale application looked decent but not stellar: ordinary school context, non-top rank, modest SAT by elite standards, minor activities, a generic essay, and recommendations shadowed by perceived ambition.
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Jiang treats his own post-Yale collapse, depression, suicidal thoughts, video-game withdrawal, and later teaching as evidence that Yale traumatized him and that he had to relearn real learning.
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"But now, the world is changing. America is not becoming, is no longer the global hegemon. Russia, China, these countries are rising as well...."
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"hard in school, I went to Yale, and I could have made a lot of money as a lawyer or as a doctor, but..."
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"All right. So, my application. All right. So, I went to a public high school. It was good, but it's not a private high..."
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"I organized it. Okay? So, these three activities, they're fine, but it doesn't really demonstrate leadership potential. Right? You're not like head of student..."
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"Certainly for me, it was a mistake, because after I graduated, I stumbled through life. For me, it was just failure after failure after..."
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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