Jiang's name for the incentive structure that makes students chase English, dollars, and Western immigration.
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the game
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"...so believe it or not but the way that you behave the game that you're playing it's strange it's weird so i'll point out..."
"...united states or britain or canada so it's a really weird game and so the question we want i want to look at today..."
"...bearer is essentially like captured a flag or the king in the game of chess right uh the standard bearer is what gives uh..."
"man who certainly knew how the game of magic fraud was played see there guido bonatti see astente who now would wish he had..."
"...these prophecies because then you're just a great a pawn in the game of the gods right okay like this prophecy is the idea..."
"...hope that you're more able to contribute individually to it so the game plan for the last half of this seminar is for us..."
"...an earlier several classes ago and there was an analogy about the game of the game of the game of the game of the..."
"...question, too. So, like, I'm reminded of something in Crusader Kings, the game. Like, you can have your priest justify your claim to a..."
"...of risk, right? Right. So, a therapist has different skin in the game than you as the parent. So, naturally, even though the therapist..."
"...no longer cares does that make sense because he's already designed the game and we just play the game and doesn't really care what..."
"...never really studied the legend of zelda's i mean i know the game um but the mythology behind is something that i should look..."
"...that at the very top um everyone playing a multi -dimensional game everyone has uh divided loyalties allegiances because everyone's trying to position himself..."
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