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Originally Posted by cmac2012
That sort of strict push for success can have a downside. When I was living at the Zen center in Berkeley, a Korean woman brought her 21-22 year old son to see the teacher. He was at U Cal in engineering. Had attempted suicide a week earlier and she was hoping we could give him the support he needed to recover in some way.
Dude had the deer in the headlights look. Had been a 4.0 student we had heard but had very poor social skills. He was to live with us, we tried to reach out to him but he was shut down. A few days later, he succeeded in suicide, never having moved into our place.
The Korean drive to succeed academically is not too different than that of the Chinese.
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It would be interesting to compare suicide rates and the reason for suicides between the cultures. I have a friend who is a college math teacher. International student from Asia walked out of class one day and jumped off the balcony outside the classroom in a suicide attempt (unsuccessful).
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