I was just in China less than a month ago. Bad company aside, I really liked the place: unified people, completely modernized, clean and good food.
It was hard wrapping my mind around how a individual in a country so huge can rise to the top, and the feeling entire families must feel knowing they don’t even stand a chance (you either go to college and come back with a progressive future or you don’t a become like the bored locker room attendant who handed me my pool slippers in the morning).
Korea was a bit different: there seemed to be more chances to “make it” but the people on the whole seemed more frustrated with their national situation. (6/28)