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The condition in which a group obeys the official path to success but still loses because the rule-maker designed the game for its own advantage.
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rule-following trap
The condition in which a group obeys the official path to success but still loses because the rule-maker designed the game for its own advantage.
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"So you have to be a surgeon, you have to be a top lawyer, you have to be an entrepreneur, in order to be..."
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"All right, so you would think that East Asian men, Asian man will ultimately triumph in the end but what is really disconcerting is..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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